Why Did the Press and Members of the Scientific Community Hide What They Knew?

We know why the government would.

Now I would like to know what everyone else's reasons are:

Cabinet yesterday defied a House order in refusing to release uncensored accounts of an RCMP raid at a federal lab. Foreign Minister Marc Garneau said cabinet had a “responsibility as a government” not to discuss the police raid or subsequent January 20 firing of two Chinese scientists granted secret security clearance by the Public Health Agency: ‘Certain information touches on possible security implications.’

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House of Commons has been notified by the law clerk that the minority Liberal government has refused to comply with an order of the House asking that all uncensored records on the firing of two scientists from Winnipeg's National Microbiology Lab be provided to the Speaker.

— Steven Chase (@stevenchase) June 7, 2021

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But most importantly, I hope that we realize that with the hysteria about this Chinese flu as the pretext, an entire infrastructure has been built, an infrastructure that can be used again at any moment, due to any occurrence. Lockdowns, masks, social distancing, no ore traveling, no handshakes, ridiculous experimental jabs.

This COVID phase has been a practice to train obedience. Our parliament and the Rutte regime have passed this training with grace. Congratulations. Klaus Schwab [promoter of the "Great Reset"] will be proud of you. The globalist plans can be carried out – and the next step towards mass surveillance and total control can be taken.

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The federal government will focus on “fully vaccinated” Canadians when the time comes to begin relaxing travel and other restrictions put in place to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Wednesday.

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A natural emergence is still possible, but COVID-19 has a genetic footprint that has never been seen before in a natural coronavirus and suggests the virus originated in a lab, say two U.S. experts.

Dr. Steven Quay and Richard Muller made the assertion Sunday in an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal and based it on the genomic sequencing patterns of COVID-19 and large discrepancies in its genetic diversity compared to the other coronaviruses responsible for SARS and MERS.

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Many scientists have been dismayed by their actions. “It is very important to talk about the scientific journals — I think they are partially responsible for the cover-up,” said Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo, a leading French evolutionary biologist and key member of the Paris Group of scientists challenging the established view on these issues. The rejection of the lab leak hypothesis, she argues, in many places was not due to Trump’s intervention but the result of “respectable scientific journals not accepting to discuss the matter”.

The Paris Group, for instance, submitted a letter to The Lancet in early January signed by 14 experts from around the world calling for an open debate, arguing that “the natural origin is not supported by conclusive arguments and that a lab origin cannot be formally discarded”. This does not seem contentious. But it was rejected on the basis it was “not a priority for us”. When the authors queried this decision, it was reassessed and returned without peer review by editor-in-chief Richard Horton with a terse dismissal saying “we have agreed to uphold our original decision to let this go”. The authors ended up publishing their statement on a pre-print site.

Yet this is the same prestigious journal that published a now infamous statement early last year attacking “conspiracy theories suggesting that Covid-19 does not have a natural origin“. Clearly, this was designed to stifle debate. It was signed by 27 experts but later turned out to have been covertly drafted by Peter Daszak, the British scientist with extensive ties to Wuhan Institute of Virology. To make matters worse, The Lancet then set up a commission on the origins — and incredibly, picked Daszak to chair its 12-person task force, joined by five others who signed that statement dismissing ideas the virus was not a natural occurrence.

 

Even if for no other reason than to prove those who believe in the lab theory wrong, these experts and their willing partners in the popular press refused to entertain the idea.

That is not journalism; that is complicity in a global wrong-doing.