The intervention comes as a team of scientists from the World Health Organisation prepares to fly to China this week to investigate the origin of a disease that has killed more than half a million people globally.
"There is an accumulation of evidence that this is something that has to be openly discussed in the scientific community," the former spy chief said. "There is no doubt that this was a natural event," said Dr Rachael Tarlinton, an associate professor of veterinary virology at the University of Nottingham.
"We knew spillover from animals was a risk… The virus may have passed through an intermediate species on its way into the human population from bats but we may never know which animal this was - candidates include pangolins and small carnivores like palm civets or mongooses. Unfortunately we can't go back in time and start monitoring from before the outbreak so we only have very patchy samples to try and work this out from.
"Why are there rumours?" he asked."Because the Institute of Virology … [is] in Wuhan people can't help but make associations, which I think is understandable. But it is bad when some are deliberately trying to mislead people. This is entirely based on speculation."With COVID-19 responsible for so much death and economic damage, the mystery about its origin has become a highly-political topic as well as a scientific one.
Who cares ?
in order to shift blame for the Tories disastrous handling of pandemic
Agree.People in the world want to know the truth.I also want to see they argue with the origin of corona virus.
Well he needs to tell us what he knows!
Gender 21, to wipe out half of the human population by 2050... or something like that, our eath is dying! COVID19 is man-made i bet you.
The world deserves answers
The fact the CCP is playing everything down now and the way hey did in the last months with spam campaigns is enough reason to consider something might be very wrong here
All I know is that China has been faking things for a long time. Who's to say they didn't fake this too?
We Need It ,too
BretWeinstein was talking about this on joerogan podcast 3 weeks ago. Good to see is on the ball here, probably been busy stirring the race war.
Good SKY for once a bit of real journalism and debate.
You just want to get any excuses to spy the tech in Chinese lab ha! You dream it!