Lefty Covid Lab Leak Critics Demolished by New Findings – Guido Fawkes

Lefty Covid Lab Leak Critics Demolished by New Findings

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It was an interesting weekend of revelations for co-conspirators following the Covid lab leak story – as we come up to the fifth anniversary of the first national lockdown. Never again…

The Mail on Sunday revealed a major scoop on its front page detailing a secret briefing given by former top spook Sir Richard Dearlove and other experts around that time. Dearlove’s briefing, escalated to the Prime Minister, pointed the finger of blame at a lab leak, saying the virus was ‘engineered in Wuhan Institute of Virology’…

The piece recounts the dismissive role played former Government Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance, now – checks notes – a Labour minister:

“Lord Vallance is facing increasing scrutiny over his role in suppressing the lab leak theory. He took part in a multinational teleconference in February 2020, after which it is alleged scientists began dismissing the Chinese lab-leak hypothesis as implausible. Last week, former minister Steve Baker said Lord Vallance ‘should be fully transparent about what he knew and why he chose to be among those who avoided inconvenient questions’. A source said: ‘Boris thinks it is possible that the scientists disliked the lab leak theory because they are wary about public hostility to science. They didn’t want stories about Frankenstein viruses that would mean a threat to research funding. He also thinks they were nervous of causing offence to their international partners.”

Meanwhile, on the other side of the pond, The New York Times ran an op-ed under the headline ‘we were badly misled about the event that changed our lives’ – detailing recent developments in the investigation to find the origins of the pandemic, after the CIA publicly confirmed a lab leak was the most likely source. Possibly not the kind of content you’d ordinarily expect from the NYT’s opinion pages…

Lefties raged for years that any doubt over the natural origin theory was somehow prejudiced. Turns out it wasn’t…