MIT molecular biologist says virus was 'engineered'

 Red States:

While the rest of the scientific community have conveniently forgotten that their role is to question and explore without having a foregone conclusion in mind, one scientist has been at the forefront of questioning the origins of COVID-19, but her work has been largely ignored by the media and scientific community. Alina Chan, a molecular biologist at the Broad Institute of MIT and a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, told the UK Parliament Science and Technology Select Committee this week that the SARS-CoV-2 virus was likely engineered, and likely originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Chan began her scientific quest by asking questions but later progressed into making more direct accusations, largely because of the total and complete failure of those within the science community to give equal consideration to the lab leak potential. Chan, who has co-authored a book the Origins of COVID-19 (available on Amazon here), now lives in fear for her life, believing that if her well-evidenced theory proves correct, she could become a target of those who have the most to lose, such as the Chinese Government.

On Wednesday she testified before the UK Parliament Science and Technology Select Committee....

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Chan claimed that a unique feature of the virus is what enabled it to cause the pandemic and that WIV was developing a “pipeline for inserting” this feature:

‘We know this virus (Covid) has a unique feature, called the furin cleavage site, and without this feature there is no way this would be causing this pandemic.

‘A proposals was leaked showing that EcoHealth and the Wuhan Institute of Virology were developing a pipeline for inserting novel furin cleavage sites. So, you find these scientists who said in early 2018 ‘I’m going to put horns on horses’ and at the end of 2019 a unicorn turns up in Wuhan city.’

According to the Daily Mail, after the May 2021 Science article was posted urging a further look at the lab leak theory, another study made even more explosive claims:

[A] study by British Professor Angus Dalgleish and Norwegian scientist Dr Birger Sørensen claimed it had ‘prima facie evidence of retro-engineering in China’ for a year.

The study included accusations of ‘deliberate destruction, concealment or contamination of data’ at Chinese labs.

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There is much more.

Her theory certainly looks more plausible than the Chicom tale.