Tornado Alley (PROG)

[newmedman]

So you're all hot and bothered about the recent "whistle blower" that the GOP claims to have found? Thanks for going back to an article from 2021, very convincing.

A few researchers have revealed how they cooperated with some of the intelligence agencies. Evolutionary biologist Kristian Andersen of Scripps Research and virologist Robert Garry of Tulane University, who have co-authored studies supporting the zoonotic origin and testified before Wenstrup’s committee, both met with CIA agents probing the COVID-19 origin over the past few years. Andersen said that “several scientists were part of their team and they knew their stuff.” He asserts that the new whistleblower allegation “obviously is bullshit.”

Garry similarly says it sounds “ludicrous,” noting that the CIA agent who interviewed him “had a solid grasp of all the molecular biology” and didn’t give him any sense of leaning in either direction. “This keeps getting stranger,” Garry adds

https://www.science.org/content/article/cia-bribed-its-own-covid-19-origin-team-reject-lab-leak-theory-anonymous-whistleblower