Sir Richard Dearlove cites study by researchers claiming to have found ‘inserted’ elements in virus
www.independent.co.uk
Being an ex 'old spook', his network will still be alive and kicking. So I suspect there may still be some truth in this even if the scientists and politicians deny it for political reasons.
China is hiding something and it will come out in the wash eventually.
I occasionally pop back to this thread to see what is going on, and I usually find the same mix of conspiracy and complaining, and I can normally bring myself to just ignore it and move along. But this is just too horrible to let go.
What we have here is someone repeating that the Independent is reporting that the Telegraph is reporting that a 75-year-old geezer is trying to get some publicity for himself by claiming that the SARS-CoV-2 virus 'might' have escaped from a Chinese lab by accident after being man-made, entirely based on his glancing at an obscure paper about a candidate vaccine and misunderstanding what the technical term 'insertion' means to virologists. This whole chain is about as irresponsible as shouting 'fire' in a crowded cinema, and everyone involved should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves.
And before anyone gives me 'no smoke without fire' and 'old spook network' and 'may still be some truth' and 'the politicians will deny it', please just bear in mind there is NOTHING to this story - it is ALL made up nonsense. It might just as well be the Daily Mail reporting that the National Enquirer had reported that Elvis thought that the moon landings 'might be' fake because the Who had a drummer called Moon.
It is also not harmless 'speculation' time-passing' or 'comedy'. The President of the most powerful nation on earth is working himself up to trying to establish a fascist dictatorship, based on this sort of conspiratorial (xenophobic) nonsense, and to repeat such conspiracies is to be, in a small way, a collaborator in that that crime.
FFS!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insertional_mutagenesis
https://www.cambridge.org/core/serv..._general_method_of_action_for_infectivity.pdf