Biological weapon/Research

Biological weapon/Research  (research)
Interest of	• Danielle Anderson • Ralph Baric • Jonathan Jay Couey • Peter Daszak • EcoHealth Alliance • Anthony Fauci • Bill Gates • Wuhan Institute of Virology

Research into bioweapons is ongoing.

"Gain-of-function" research

"Gain-of-function" research or "feature enhancement" is the modification of naturally occurring viruses in order to make them more deadly and/or more contagious, especially in humans. The Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) opened mainland China's first biosafety level 4 laboratory in 2015. They carried out "gain-of-function" research on coronaviruses and SARS-like viruses. Several US agencies have outsourced research to WIV since 2014. Documentation informing about SARS-COV-2 "feature enhancement" was suspiciously "destroyed" in November 2019 at WIV.

Genetic extinction technology

Full article: Genetic Extinction Technology

In 2017 one group in Australia and another in Texas released preliminary research into creating 'daughterless mice', using gene drives in mammals. Modified viruses may be used to promote genetic extinction technology.

Temporary moratorium

Safety concerns lead to the banning of "Gain-of-function" research on coronaviruses in the US in 2014, but it "came roaring back under Trump and Fauci" in 2017. Marc Lipsitch commented that this sort of research had “done almost nothing to improve our preparedness for pandemics, yet... risked creating an accidental pandemic.”

Legal status

It is illegal to research offensive bioweapons.

In practice, this restriction means nothing, since — apart from the veil of secrecy surrounding such activities, the research of new offensive weapons can be explained as a first step to development of research into how to defend against them.

US links to the Wuhan Institute of Virology

Full article: Wuhan Institute of Virology

In addition to the WIV, the US military, the US CDC and US universities have also done research on SARS-like bat coronaviruses, including gain-of-function research. In 2014, some of the US research was halted for safety concerns and moved to the WIV in China. Thus, some of the high-risk coronavirus research at the WIV was financed by US institutions, including, notably, the US NIAID led by Dr. Anthony Fauci.

In addition, a US NGO called “EcoHealth Alliance” worked with US institutions, the US military, and the Chinese WIV, collecting and investigating SARS-like bat coronaviruses to “prevent the next pandemic”. “Ecohealth Alliance” is led by Dr. Peter Daszak. In November 2019, before the novel coronavirus become publicly known, Peter Daszak openly stated that Ecohealth Alliance and the WIV were doing the type of research that could create viruses like SARS-CoV-2.

Although not widely known, the US military is the largest sponsor of EcoHealth Alliance.

Cover-up

In October 2021, the NIH removed the definition of "gain-of-function" from their website. They later claimed not to have any documentation regarding this change.

Privatisation of this area, carried out since the 1980s decreased the transparency of operations.

 

Examples

Page name	Description
CRISPR gene editing	Breakthrough technology making gene editing easy and fast.
Genetic Extinction Technology
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Operation Cauldron	Offshore test of biological weapons.

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Sasha Latypova	“The perpetrators desperately, at all cost, need you to to believe that "mutating viruses in a lab" achieves some scary result, that then can be "leaked". That anyone can do it, even a PhD student in their garage. That our enemies are doing it and will "release" a super scary bug any time now, unless the Government is "prepared" by making a stockpile of "predictive vaccines" that can be deployed in DAYS after a new scary virus is detected in China. Or Timbuktu. It is, however, a narrative. There is no way to "mutate viruses" in a lab in the way they all imply - to artificially make them deadlier and more transmissible at the same time. This is a propaganda fairytale with a very specific goal. You should be very concerned about any person (on "their" side or "ours") who repeats it with a serious face. Sure, scientists can experiment with soups of DNA/RNA and grow things in petri dishes. They can design mutations on the computer and try to make concoctions of things. Are those "viruses" that can "leak from the lab" and "infect the world"? No. The proof of this is that while there are 1000 biolabs in the US and Western world playing with viruses. no pandemics or epidemics have resulted from these activities.”	Sasha Latypova	27 January 2023

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Bioterror: Manufacturing Wars The American Way	foreword	1 April 2003	William H. Schaap Ellen Ray
Document:Was there a Wuhan lab leak?	blog post	1 June 2021	Jonathan Cook	No meaningful lessons will be learnt about what really happened in Wuhan. Maintaining the illusion of truth will continue to take precedence over uncovering the truth. And for that reason we are doomed to keep making the same screw-ups. As the next pandemic will doubtless attest.

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