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A group of amateur web-surfers uncovered the evidence for Wuhan lab leak with their persistence

At 9.55pm on Wednesday, June 2, a herd of 15 wild Asian elephants entered Jinning district in the southwestern outskirts of Kunming, the capital city of Yunnan province. China Daily reported the elephants had arrived in Yuxi city on Monday, only 20 kilometers outside the capital, and an elaborate defensive campaign was underway. Kunming and Yuxi authorities dispatched 675 police officers, 62 emergency vehicles, 12 drones and 10 tonnes of food, according to South China Morning Post. The large...

"scientists at the lab had indeed been actively studying the virus in 2017 and 2018"

Exclusive: How Amateur Sleuths Broke the Wuhan Lab Story and Embarrassed the Media By Rowan Jacobsen On 6/2/21 at 2:23 PM EDT For most of last year, the idea that the coronavirus pandemic could have been triggered by a laboratory accident in Wuhan, China, was largely dismissed as a racist conspiracy theory of the alt-right. The Washington Post in early 2020 accused Senator Tom Cotton of "fanning the embers of a conspiracy theory that has been repeatedly debunked by experts." CNN jumped in w...

DNA Science (The Wistar Institute) Hindsight is 2020, perhaps literally, when it comes to COVID-19. A compelling narrative predicting that a deadly virus – specifically, a coronavirus – would jump species, seeding the pandemic, runs through reports and opinions published in the major medical and scientific journals. We knew. Exactly 17 years ago, Toronto physician Paul Caulford wrote in the last issue of The Lancet for 2003, in “SARS: aftermath of an outbreak,” that “SARS brought on...

2020-12-23 11:35:36 GMT2020-12-23 19:35:36(Beijing Time) Xinhua English KUNMING, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- Seventeen wild Asian elephants were spotted in Mojiang County in the city of Puer, southwest Chinas Yunnan Province, in late December. It is the first time the species has been found in the county. Forest ranger Li Fudong said in Xinfu Township that the elephants first appeared near a river on Dec. 17 and were captured by a camera drone in the woods the next day. Experts confirmed that th...