[Summit Via ZERO] Sachs notes that scientists who dismissed the lab leak theory did so "before they had done any research at all," adding "they’re creating a narrative. And they’re denying the alternative hypothesis without looking closely at it."Sachs points to the ’gain of function’ research and the genetic markers found in the SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus that indicate it was manipulated to be more deadly.
"What’s interesting, and concerning if I may say so, is that the research that was underway very actively and being promoted, was to insert furin cleavage sites into SARS-like viruses to see what would happen. Oops!" Sachs states.
"They’re not looking," Sachs says of scientists who dismiss the lab leak, adding "They just keep telling us, ’Look at the market, look at the market, look at the market!’ But they don’t address this alternative. They don’t even look at the data. They don’t even ask questions. And the truth is from the beginning, they haven’t asked the real questions."
Sachs further labels the efforts to distract from the lab research as "misdirection" and "sleight of hand".
"There is a huge amount of reason to believe that that research was underway. Because there are published papers on this. There are interviews on this. There are research proposals. But NIH isn’t talking. It’s not asking. And these scientists have never asked either," Sachs further asserts.
He continues, "From the very first day, they have kept hidden from view the alternative. And when they discuss the alternative, they don’t discuss the research program. They discuss complete straw men about the lab, not the actual kind of research that was underway, which was to stick furin cleavage sites into SARS-like viruses in a way that could have created SARS-Cov-2."
"What I’m calling for is not the conclusion. I’m calling for the investigation," Sachs urges, adding "Finally, after two and a half years of this, it’s time to fess up that it might have come out of a lab and here’s the data that we need to know to find out whether it did."