The article it's referencing is here: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2202769119
- sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]·2 years ago
- US/Fauci funds the Wuhan lab to do Gain-of-Function research on COVID. The lab accepts because hey, free money
- Chinese scientists do the actual intellectual lifting while the US just acquires their end result and keeps it in Ft. Belvoir/Ft Detrick
- the US fuck up and it escapes. (Ft Detrick shutdown 2019)
- knowing the coming damage, US personnel heavily seed it in China at the Wuhan military games so that they can lie and write it off as a Chinese lab leak.