KEVIN MCKERNAN: Can you see how spineless the Fauci puppets are? Centralized science creates hierarchies of boot lickers.

Can you see how spineless the Fauci puppets are.
Centralized science creates hierarchies of boot lickers. https://t.co/19GbaYUX8E

— Kevin McKernan (@Kevin_McKernan) June 18, 2024

The "Proximal Origin" paper was co-authored by Dr. Robert Garry.   

The Proximal Origin is a reference to a scientific correspondence titled "The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2" and the events of scientific and political controversies arising from it. The letter, published in the journal Nature Medicine on 17 March 2020, was written by a group of virologists including Kristian G. Andersen, Andrew Rambaut, W. Ian Lipkin, Edward C. Holmes and Robert F. Garry. The authors examined possibilities of an accidental leak of a natural or manipulated virus from a laboratory, and concluded that genomic analyses indicated that "SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus."

The letter was highly influential in establishing the natural origin of COVID-19 in the early stages of the pandemic and generated controversy over the arguments it made against any lab-based origin scenario, and the link later drawn between its authors and public health officials alleged to have funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology prior to the pandemic. Three years after the publication, in 2023, the US Republicans raised an allegation that the scientific paper was a coverup to suppress the COVID-19 lab leak theory.