Getting in front of this now. Dr. Yan Li-Meng just dropped a new Steve Bannon-sponsored preprint on the origins of #SARSCoV2 and...guess what it's about:
Not just a bioweapon, but an UNRESTRICTED BIOWEAPON. It's like a regular bioweapon but NO RESTRICTIONS.
And it's more nonsense in the same vein as the first "Yan report." The authors assert that a bunch of other coronaviruses are fake, based on invented sequences deposited in GenBank. RaTG13? FAKE. RmYN02? FAKE. Pangolin CoVs? FAKE FAKE FAKE!
It even includes a silly PCR-based scheme for faking raw sequencing data for deposit into GenBank, because the nefarious coronavirus weaponeers would need to upload realistic looking data that would fool the savvy curators of GenBank. BUT IT'S NOT FOOLING DR. YAN AND COLLEAGUES!
Here's my favorite part though: all scientists who point out how unfounded these theories are and how laughably incoherent the supposed "proof" of lab origin is and how many illogical hoops you have to leap through to buy this are part of a global conspiracy to cover this up.
Last I checked, just accusing an entire global community of scientists who rely on evidence to assess data is not itself evidence of said worldwide conspiracy to deliberately cause a pandemic and cover it up. It does, however, fit neatly into a "Blame China" agenda.
So thanks a lot to Dr. Yan and the Steve Bannon-led foundation financing this propaganda from all the scientists who will have to waste time debunking this shitshow of disinformation.
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