China News Service, Beijing, July 16 (Reporter Zhang Chenyi) The "laboratory leak theory" of the new crown virus is constantly changing and hyped against some Western politicians, and Peter Doherty, a well-known Australian immunologist and Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine, etc. International scholars believe that the laboratory leak theory is demonizing science and calling for truth not to be a political victim.

On July 5, local time, Toronto Pearson International Airport, Canada, Canada implemented the first-stage measures to relax the entry restrictions from that day. If inbound passengers have been fully vaccinated with the official new crown vaccine, they can be exempted from quarantine and the eighth day of entry. Virus detection.

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"Laboratory Leak Theory" is demonizing science

　　The Australian "Medical Republic" website published an article on the 13th to introduce Peter Dougherty's views.

He criticized the "laboratory leak theory" of the new coronavirus, saying that all existing evidence points to the virus being transmitted to humans through animals.

　　A new study by scientists such as Peter Doherty shows that the new coronavirus is the seventh coronavirus that has infected humans in the past 20 years.

The previous six coronaviruses were transmitted to humans through animals, and the new coronavirus also has all the characteristics of these six coronaviruses.

　　Peter Dougherty bluntly said that the claims that the new crown virus was artificially designed, was deliberately released, or leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, are all demonizing science and part of the anti-science movement.

"The laboratory of Wuhan Institute of Virology is operating in the best condition, and the infection control procedures are also very strict." Starting from some existing research, he pointed out that bats are the most likely source of the new coronavirus.

　　The Australian "Financial Review" recently published an article entitled "Believe in the Harm of "Laboratory Leak Theory"". It said that a group of 21 major virologists from Canada, the United States, Austria and other countries is composed of the University of Sydney, An international research team led by the University of Edinburgh warned that the new crown virus has a high probability of originating from animals, but if everyone believes that the virus leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan, it will mislead future research priorities, which will make the world easier. Affected by the epidemic, "because this argument will make us underestimate the investigation and research on the animal origin of the new coronavirus."

　　The article further pointed out that there are no more than two views on the origin of the new coronavirus in the world: it originated in the animal kingdom, or it came from laboratory leaks.

The article quoted Professor Sara Gilbert, the designer of Oxford vaccines, as saying that the new coronavirus is most likely to come from animals.

"I don't think there is any reason to believe that the new coronavirus was created deliberately, and there is no indication that the new coronavirus was leaked from the laboratory."

On June 12, 2021, local time, Berlin, Germany, the Berlin Opera House (Deutsche Oper Berlin) reopened. All audiences were required to wear masks and present a vaccination certificate or a recent negative test for the new coronavirus.

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Don't let truth become a political victim

　　The US Daily Review published a long article on the 13th, emphasizing that some people and organizations in the United States currently advocate the "laboratory leak theory" because it is instigated by a group of extreme rightists and is also a product of some kind of political struggle. On the contrary, it is related to science and truth Not big.

　　The article cited, for example, that the popular science writer Nicholas Wade who advocated for the "laboratory leak theory" was himself a "disgraced racist pseudo-scientist."

Nicholas Wade even stated that humans can be genetically divided into three distinct groups: Africans, Caucasians and East Asians.

Obviously, his argument supporting the "laboratory leak theory" cannot fool scientists.

American evolutionary virologist Goldstein and others pointed out that the new coronavirus has considerable characteristics confirming that it is very likely to originate in nature.

From the current point of view, the new coronavirus has the characteristics of "sloppy natural evolution".

Scientists asked, if the virus is edited by humans, why not edit the new coronavirus to be more refined and efficient?

　　The article said that the China-WHO Joint Research Report on the Traceability of the New Coronavirus pointed out that the possibility of the new coronavirus leaking from the laboratory is extremely small.

The leader of the expert group, Peter Ben Embarek, said that after his visit to Wuhan, he was more convinced than ever that the "laboratory leak theory" was wrong.

However, some media reports on this research completely distorted the facts. For example, the title of a report on the National Public Radio in the United States was "In view of the World Health Organization report, the theory that the new crown virus comes from a Chinese laboratory has gained a new life."

Scientist Adam Rogers wrote an article in Wired magazine to refute the above-mentioned similar false reports, and emphasized that history and science have shown that the new coronavirus is more likely to originate in the animal kingdom.

　　"Daily Review" online quoted media critic Josh Qiao as saying that the "laboratory leak theory" contains distrust of China and the Chinese people.

There is an Orientalist fallacy or China-phobia in certain people in the West, which makes them tend to think that the Chinese government or Chinese scientists can or will hide the evidence leaked by the laboratory.

They make good use of the presumption of guilt toward China and doubt every behavior of the Chinese government.

　　The article pointed out that at the political level, after the U.S. Democratic Party came to power, it also used similar tactics as the previous Republican Party to intensify hostility towards China.

This is a systematic attitude of the United States towards China, and preventing China's economic rise is the primary task of the two parties.

So on the issue of the tracing of the new crown, they are trying to weaponize the same slander in order to increase the pressure on China.

　　The article stated that the "laboratory leak theory" has striking similarities with the previous scam accusing "Iraq possesses weapons of mass destruction": mostly only some anonymous sources are cited; opinions of the scientific community are selectively ignored.

But the world needs to understand that in war, truth is always the first victim.

　　"The Lancet" recently published an article warning of the danger of treating China as a "scapegoat" and pointed out that "mutual accusations" did not exist in the past and will not promote international cooperation in the future.

"If we are to be prepared for the next global pandemic, then we should stop talking and open up the light of scientific inquiry now."

Data map: A long queue of customers in front of a discount store in Manhattan, New York City, USA.

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Where did the new coronavirus first appear?

　　The traceability of the new coronavirus is inseparable from the fundamental question of when and where it first appeared.

For a long time, the international scientific community has worked hard to maintain continuous research on this issue, constantly discovering new clues.

　　According to U.S. media, the mayor of Belleville, New Jersey, said that he had been infected with the new coronavirus in November 2019, and test results also showed that he had antibodies to the new coronavirus, which was earlier than the first confirmed case of new coronavirus reported in the United States. More than 2 months, also earlier than the first case reported in China.

A study by the National Institutes of America found that evidence of new coronavirus infections in 5 states in the United States appeared in December 2019.

A collaborative study between the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Washington has shown that the number of patients with respiratory symptoms and diseases starting from late December 2019 and continuing through February 2020 has increased significantly, indicating that the new coronavirus has been in the world before it has clinical awareness and detection capabilities. American community spread.

In addition, many media reported that a large-scale outbreak of e-cigarette pneumonia in Wisconsin in July 2019 and swept across multiple states. Part of the patient's lung CT showed a mass of fuzzy white, showing a "big white lung" state, which is very similar to the symptoms of new coronary pneumonia. .

The United States has more than 200 biological laboratories around the world, and its biological militarization activities have aroused great attention from international public opinion.

　　According to another report, research by the National Cancer Institute in Milan, Italy shows that the new crown virus has spread in Italy since September 2019; research institutions in Brazil, France and other countries have found that the new crown virus may exist in these countries in the second half of 2019.

　　On July 15, the permanent representatives of 48 countries in Geneva sent a letter to the Director-General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, supporting the development of research on the traceability of the new coronavirus on a global scale, and opposing the politicization of traceability.

The letter emphasized that the virus is the common enemy of mankind, and the international community can only defeat the virus through unity and cooperation. The development of traceability research cooperation is an important aspect of the struggle between mankind and the virus.

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