Following the Money Written by John Campbell

Following the money Gus described how he went digging. Scientists in Wuhan, he said, had already published work in major journals describing the kind of genetic inserts he and Srensen had flagged. Many of those papers carried the name of the American virologist Ralph Baric, whom Gus credits with pioneering techniques for stitching viral RNA together without leaving a trace. When Gus raised this, he said, a member of the Royal Society told him it could not be done. Two things stood out in the small print: funding routed through Peter Daszaks EcoHealth Alliance, and grants from the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, then led by Anthony Fauci. That led Gus to the Nature Medicine paper, "The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2", which he believes was organised to close down the lab-leak debate. Reading it, he said, he found that its own references could be used to argue the opposite of its conclusion. "It was like a Guardian article," he said, "where the headlines completely the opposite of whats in it." The paper was then used against him.

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