trey on Nostr: In 2020, Cambridge-based scientist Alina Chan of the Broad Institute proposed that ...
In 2020, Cambridge-based scientist Alina Chan of the Broad Institute proposed that SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, may have originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, rather than through natural transmission from animals to humans. Many in the science and media community tried to destroy her. Insane to reflect on years later and everyone is just like yeah it came from the lab duh.
Interviewer: “Yes, and now we know, thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, that they were colluding to suppress discussion of the lab-leak theory and were secretly trying to get you disciplined or fired. How did that make you feel?”
Chan: “Scientists are people. They have a lot of different pressures in their lives. Pressures to keep their labs running, to publish, to advance in their career. These virologists were not speaking scientifically. They were speaking from a very motivated standpoint, trying to shut down something that they thought would hurt their interests. Even in a situation where millions of people were dying. That shocked me.”
https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2025/03/12/alina-chan-cambridge-covid/
Interviewer: “Yes, and now we know, thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, that they were colluding to suppress discussion of the lab-leak theory and were secretly trying to get you disciplined or fired. How did that make you feel?”
Chan: “Scientists are people. They have a lot of different pressures in their lives. Pressures to keep their labs running, to publish, to advance in their career. These virologists were not speaking scientifically. They were speaking from a very motivated standpoint, trying to shut down something that they thought would hurt their interests. Even in a situation where millions of people were dying. That shocked me.”
https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2025/03/12/alina-chan-cambridge-covid/