3 ms·

He proudly proclaims his research in this video, he is not hiding anything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdYDL_RK--w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdYDL_RK

• lps41 5y ago
  He absolutely did try to hide things. He tried to hide his relationship to the original Lancet article denouncing the lab leak theory, because he knew it was a staggering conflict of interest: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-inside-the-fight-to-uncover-covid-19s-origins https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-...
  • kennywinker 5y ago
    Person organizing PR statement takes actions to make that PR statement as effective as possible? Not exactly a cover up. I don’t “like” my own instagram posts for the same reason.
    • lps41 5y ago
      It’s expected that conflicts of interest be disclosed in journalism and things like this. Instead he actively worked to hide his conflict of interest.
      • noptd 5y ago
        Exactly, and it looks like almost all of them did: >All but one scientist who penned a letter in The Lancet dismissing the possibility that coronavirus could have come from a lab in Wuhan were linked to its Chinese researchers, their colleagues or funders, a Telegraph investigation can reveal. Source: https://archive.ph/dXc0n https://archive.ph/dXc0n
    • dash2 5y ago
      Scientists have to hold themselves to a higher ethical standard than PR flacks.