Scientists Call for Investigation into Journals That Dismissed Wuhan Lab Theory

 Scientists Call for Investigation into Journals That Dismissed Wuhan Lab Theory

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/scientists-call-for-investigation-into-journals-that-dismissed-wuhan-lab-theory/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=right-rail&utm_content=corner&utm_term=first

Excerpt: Pro-China ideologues and well-regarded medical researchers with an apparent interest in ensuring that U.S.–China cooperation on coronavirus research continued worked with prominent medical journals, such as the Lancet, to cast the idea as a conspiracy theory that inflames anti-Asian sentiment. (...) Voice of America spoke to Richard Ebright, a Rutgers University microbiologist and outspoken lab-leak proponent, and Nikolai Petrovsky, a professor at Flinders University in Australia, about prominent medical journals’ rejection of articles that didn’t fit the supposed scientific consensus before the lab-leak explanation went mainstream: “Scientists skeptical from the start of the natural-spillover theory, including Petrovsky, Ebright and a so-called Paris Group of scientists, which drafted two open letters on the origins of coronavirus, say an inquiry into the role of major science journals is in order. Much of the focus has been on The Lancet and Nature but other leading  journals have come under criticism, including Science, an academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.” [In the immediate post-WWII era, the Voice of America was strongly supportive of the West’s defense actions during the Cold War. Like most other media, that attitude pretty much went away as Russian influence diminished. By the time of the First Gulf War, VOA was as liberal as most other US, UK, or EU media and that continues to the present day. Still, they must’ve found an honest reporter and editor to publish this. It’s short but very worth reading It also has some interesting links providing further back up. Ron P.]