Scientist slams lack of “truth" and "transparency” in Daszak letter on COVID origin

Scientist slams lack of “truth" and "transparency” in Daszak letter on COVID origin

EXCERPT: [Professor Nikolai Petrovsky said:] "This is a letter that has not come from an individual or a single institute, but the emails clearly indicate the desire to cover that up and say this is coming from a group of scientists around the world when that was not in fact the case. So, on scientific principles, that really doesn’t stand up.”
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Released emails reveal 'no truth or transparency' in letter regarding origin of COVID-19

22 Nov 2020
https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6211530128001
Flinders’ University Professor Nikolai Petrovsky says there is no “truth or transparency” reflected in the newly released email correspondence which reveals a letter in the Lancet - regarding the origin of COVID - was authored by EcoHealth Alliance.
In February 2020, the Lancet published a letter signed by 27 leading scientists saying the virus originated from animals and criticised those who questioned whether it instead originated from a laboratory for supposedly spreading misinformation.
This week, 466 pages of new email correspondence were released under FOI and obtained by the US Right to Know group which exposed the letter in the Lancet was organised and authored by the EcoHealth Alliance.
EcoHealth Alliance is a US non-profit group which has received millions of dollars from the US to do joint research, genetically modifying coronaviruses, with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The same type of research that is suspected of having inadvertently leaked to cause COVID-19.
The emails released under FOI show that EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak wrote the first draft of the Lancet statement.
Sky News host Sharri Markson said, "it's been reported by the US Right to Know group that two of the other scientists who signed the letter, Rita Colwell and James Hughes, are members of the Board of Directors of EcoHealth Alliance, while William Karesh is the group's Executive Vice President for Health and Policy, and Hume Field, from University of Queensland in Australia, is Science and Policy advisor."
“Science is all about truth or transparency, and unfortunately, we don’t see any of that reflected in these emails,” Mr Petrovsky said.
“Here we have a situation with a serious pandemic, in fact WHO at that time were refusing to call it a pandemic, and we have a group of scientists, based at a particular institute who are implicated at least in very similar gain of function research to what may have created a virus like this, seeking to really, unfortunately, deceive the readers of these journals.
“That this is a letter that has not come from an individual or a single institute, but the emails clearly indicate the desire to cover that up and say this is coming from a group of scientists around the world when that was not in fact the case.
“So, on scientific principles, that really doesn’t stand up.”

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