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Episode 180 Promo - Lab Leak Theory: New Evidence? (w/ Jeffrey Sachs)

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Bad Faith

News, Comedy, Politics

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

This week, Briahna speaks to Jeffrey Sachs, chair of the Lancet COVID-19 commission. He once believed expert consensus that lab leak theory was a nothingburger. But as he conducted the investigation and got unsatisfactory answers about what research was happening in US labs, he became determined to prove or disprove lab leak theory — one way or another. Learn more about his muck raking investigation, new clues that indicate a zoonotic origin for COVID is less likely than a lab origin, and how he's upsetting the scientific establishment on this week’s premium Bad Faith.
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0:00.0

The footnote, the critical footnote, was to a 2014 article about a 2020 outbreak.

0:08.2

Okay, that is weird.

0:10.6

Wait, I don't understand.

0:12.3

I don't know.

0:13.1

So there was an article that was talking about and anticipated.

0:15.9

So here's the story.

0:17.1

Mark 2020, the critical article comes out saying, this is natural.

0:22.1

And then they say in the text, it's cognitive come from a lab experiment.

0:26.1

Because we know from the lab that this virus, this kind of virus, was not being used in the lab.

0:34.6

So it couldn't have come from the lab.

0:36.7

Footnote, number 20 to 2014.

0:41.6

I said, what do you mean?

0:43.9

Did it some research get done between 2015 and 2019?

0:48.3

Right.

0:49.6

Well, something was, you know, it makes your blood pressure rise a little bit and you're

0:54.8

here, here stand on end.

0:57.0

Then came the next bombshell of the FOIA release and the intercept carried this.

1:04.4

And it is a grant proposal that is called the diffuse grant proposal.

1:09.8

People can find it online at the internet, download it, fun reading.

1:14.0

It's a lot of high level of biology.

1:17.5

But it says on page 10 and you just can't make this stuff up.

1:23.4

It says, we've collected a lot of virus strains of this kind of virus.

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