{"id":258643,"date":"2023-05-22T13:54:01","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T11:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=258643"},"modified":"2023-05-22T13:54:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T11:54:04","slug":"pentagon-debunked-faucis-anti-lab-leak-proximal-origin-paper-in-may-2020-leaked-document-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=258643","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Debunked Fauci\u2019s Anti-Lab-Leak \u2018Proximal Origin\u2019 Paper in May 2020, Leaked Document Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From\u00a0The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0WILL JONES<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Researchers at the U.S. Department of Defence wrote a devastating takedown<\/a> of the Proximal Origin study,<\/a> which was used by Dr. Anthony Fauci as proof that the COVID-19 virus had come from nature. The Epoch Times<\/em> has the story<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The takedown, dated May 26th 2020, was written in the form of a working paper called \u2018Critical analysis of Andersen et al. The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2<\/a>\u2018. It was authored by Commander Jean-Paul Chretien<\/a>, a Navy doctor working at the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, and Dr. Robert Cutlip<\/a>, a research scientist at the Defence Intelligence Agency. The paper came to light on May 15th 2023, when it was leaked to the public via virus origins search group DRASTIC<\/a> (Decentralised Radical Autonomous Search Team Investigating COVID-19). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The working paper forensically dismantles the natural origin case made in Proximal Origin and concludes, \u201cThe arguments that Andersen et al.<\/em> use to support a natural-origin scenario for SARS-CoV-2 are based not on scientific analysis, but on unwarranted assumptions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The existence of this internal Pentagon paper is crucial, as it proves that Government officials were well aware in the early months of the pandemic that there was no evidence in support of a natural origin of the COVID-19 virus. Additionally, given the crushing discrediting of Proximal Origin, Pentagon officials would also have been aware of Fauci\u2019s efforts to seed a false narrative about the origin of COVID-19. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proximal Origin was initially conceived by Fauci during a secret teleconference held on February 1st 2020. The ostensible purpose<\/a> of the teleconference was to deflect attention from a possible lab origin of COVID-19 and to shift the focus to a natural origin theory. Fauci directed<\/a> a number of scientists, led by Kristian Andersen of Scripps Research and Robert Garry of Tulane Medical School, to pen a study that could be used to discredit the lab leak theory. Despite being directly involved<\/a> in the inception of the paper, as well as in shaping its arguments, Fauci\u2019s role was concealed from the public. Fauci later bestowed<\/a> Andersen and Garry with lavish taxpayer-funded grants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The defects in Proximal Origin were immediately noticed<\/a> by reviewers at science journal Nature<\/em>. This fact only became known late last year from emails obtained via the Freedom of Information Act by independent journalist Jimmy Tobias. However, with the help<\/a> of Jeremy Farrar, who now is the Chief Scientist of the World Health Organisation and who had helped<\/a> Fauci shape the natural origin narrative, Proximal Origin was accepted for publication in Nature Medicine<\/em> on March 17th 2020. It boldly concluded that no \u201claboratory-based scenario is plausible\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On April 17th 2020, President Donald Trump confirmed<\/a> that the COVID-19 pandemic likely started in a Wuhan laboratory in China. On the same day, while attending a White House press conference, Fauci categorically dismissed the possibility<\/a> of a lab origin of COVID-19, citing Proximal Origin as corroboration. Fauci feigned independence, telling reporters that he could not recall the names of the authors. What was not known at the time was that Fauci not only knew the authors well, but had personally led the effort to have Proximal Origin written.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proximal Origin became the media\u2019s go-to natural origin authority, repeating Fauci\u2019s claim that the paper provided dispositive proof that COVID-19 had come out of nature. It also became the most-read<\/a> article on COVID-19 and one of the most cited academic papers of all time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet, while the public was being told by Fauci and the media that Proximal Origin had settled the origin debate, Pentagon researchers came to a very different conclusion. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Worth reading in full<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Defence wrote a devastating\u00a0takedown\u00a0of the Proximal Origin\u00a0study,\u00a0which was used by Dr. Anthony Fauci as proof that the COVID-19 virus had come from nature.\u00a0The\u00a0Epoch Times\u00a0has the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":258647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818256,691818919,691818916],"class_list":["post-258643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-covid-19","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-wuhan","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/02022.07.20-12.48-lifezette-62d7f987339a5.jpg?fit=1200%2C627&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-15hF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":269065,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=269065","url_meta":{"origin":258643,"position":0},"title":"Who Ordered the Lab Leak Cover-Up?","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"07\/24\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Who instigated the cover-up of the lab leak theory of Covid\u2019s origins? 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