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Covid-19 is not from nature. It was created in a lab in Wuhan. The Chinese government intentionally unleashed it on the world. Those are her claims. Are they true? We have no way of verifying them. We do know that Dr. Li-Men Yang is not a quack. She s authored peer-reviewed papers on coronavirus transmission in both Nature magazine and the Lancet, two of the most-respected publications in science. Her paper on the origin of Covid-19, which she has published online, is not frivolous. In it, she points to specific evidence for her claims. She identifies so-called “cut sites,” which are frequently used in genomic engineering, that would allow scientists to swap in sequences from another virus, to create what she described last night as a Frankenstein bioweapon. She writes that she has first-hand knowledge that the Chinese military has a template virus with cut-sites, designed for that very purpose.
Again, we can t verify this. But it s clear that Dr. Li-Men Yang is a serious person, who is making a very serious claim. Within a few hours of our interview last night last night, a video of the segment reached 1.3 million people on Facebook. The coronavirus pandemic has touched the life of every American. People want to know where it came from. But Facebook doesn t want you to know. So Facebook suppressed the video, presumably on behalf of the Chinese government. Facebook executives made it harder for users to watch our segment. Those who found the video had to navigate a warning that the interview, quote, “repeats information about COVID-19 that independent fact-checkers say is false.” Instagram, which Facebook owns, did the same thing. Twitter suspended Dr. Yang’s account entirely. It did not explain why.
Nor will the tech companies explain how they know more about disease transmission than an MD/PhD virologist like Li-Men Yang. Instead, Facebook and Instagram linked to three so-called “fact-checks” that supposedly prove Yang was lying. But if you clicked on the provided links, you noticed something odd. The fact checks were all published months ago — in January, February, and March. They have nothing to do with what Dr. Li-Men Yang said. They were written before anyone knew who she was. In fact, one of the “fact-checks” attacks a totally unrelated claim: that the virus was patented, and that a vaccine was already prepared and ready to go. Huh? What does that have to do with our interview?
No one will tell us. The truth is that the experts have been wrong frequently throughout this pandemic. At one point, they told us not to wear masks. Now they tell us we must. And so on. They ve changed their prescriptions many times. Most of them aren t bad people. But like all human beings, they re fallible. They make mistakes. The solution and we used to understand this intuitively is more informed voices in the conversation. Censorship doesn t make us wiser or better informed. If it did, we d be speaking Russian right now. The Soviet Union would run the world. Instead, the Soviet Union is extinct, collapsed under the weight of its own absurdities. That s the most basic lesson of dictatorships: Anything built on lies falls apart over time.
I think we should take Dr. Yang’s accusations seriously. I hope the CIA etc. are looking into them as seriously as they can, but I don’t trust them much. It’s obvious to me as it has been for some time that Facebook and Google are in the bag for the PRC/CCP, probably because China still represents for them a potential gigantic market for expansion and because they are such left-wing organizations. Twitter as well. Peter Theil has their number but the masses, not so much. We are living in very dangerous times. I hate dangerous times. I know Tucker goes off the rails sometimes, but on this one, he’s one of the few media types who is shouting out the warning. On this occasion, we should listen.