The Wuhan lab (Pt 2): The shadow project
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🗓️ 30 June 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
The second of our two-part special on the origins of Covid, drawing from a new Sunday Times investigation into the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The Insight team has spoken to US investigators who believe the Wuhan Institute ran a covert project of dangerous experiments – and that it was done in collaboration with the Chinese military.
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Guests:
- Jonathan Calvert, Insight Editor, The Sunday Times.
- George Arbuthnott, Deputy Insight Editor, The Sunday Times.
Host: Manveen Rana.
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| 0:00.0 | Yesterday, in part one, the Sunday Times Insight team, Jonathan Calvert, and George |
| 0:11.6 | Abarthnot, explained how they found themselves challenging the prevailing wisdom about how |
| 0:19.3 | the pandemic began. |
| 0:21.5 | The hotspot in the first few weeks of the outbreak was right next to the laboratories in Wuhan |
| 0:28.2 | and not next to the market. |
| 0:31.1 | When we started looking at it, the actual evidence for our natural origin was surprisingly |
| 0:36.2 | weak. |
| 0:37.2 | It seemed to us that the weights of the circumstantial evidence strongly pointed to the lab. |
| 0:43.7 | And how research at the Wuhan Institute in the run-up to the pandemic seemed to have taken |
| 0:49.8 | a risky turn. |
| 0:51.9 | Exactly the steps that they were needed to be taken to create COVID-19 in the lab. |
| 0:58.1 | They were being carried out. |
| 1:00.4 | They were doing a type of experiment where they were fusing together viruses and they |
| 1:03.8 | did not know what was going to happen. |
| 1:06.4 | They were creating something in their lab which was in effect a monster. |
| 1:14.1 | But according to the Insight team's reporting, that might not have been the only work going |
| 1:19.5 | on at the Wuhan Institute. |
| 1:25.7 | Now listening to stories of our times from the times and the Sunday times, I'm Manvin |
| 1:30.8 | Rana. |
| 1:31.8 | Today, the second episode in our two-part special on the origins of COVID. |
| 1:38.7 | Part two, a shadow project at the Wuhan lab. |
| 1:55.7 | In part one, we heard how controversial gain-of-function techniques developed by American |
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