Don’t Forget the “Proximal Origins” Fraud that Covered Up My January 2020 Laboratory Origin Assertion

by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2023

(Dec. 30, 2023) — When I first proposed the lab origin of the SARS-Cov-2 virus in January of 2020, I did not expect those involved to double- and triple-down in their attempts to coverup the obvious.

Incredibly, by March 2020, scientist from Shanghai and Beijing had already published a rebuttal in the journal Emerging Microbes & Infections that

“Dr James Lyons-Weiler, the CEO of the ‘Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge,’ made an appalling online statement on 3 February 2020, which claimed the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) responsible for the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic was most likely constructed via laboratory recombination.”

Hao P, Zhong W, Song S, Fan S, Li X. Is SARS-CoV-2 originated from laboratory? A rebuttal to the claim of formation via laboratory recombination. Emerg Microbes Infect. 2020 Mar 8;9(1):545-547. doi: 10.1080/22221751.2020.1738279. PMID: 32148173; PMCID: PMC7144200. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7144200/

Following the publication of that rebuttal, the CCP put out the word to all Chinese nationals doing science to stop publishing rebuttals.

It’s been painful to watch the coverup that ensued. Kristian Andersen’s alleged complicity in rolling over on the evidence that the SAR-CoV-2 sequence for Fauci did not appear to be consistent with evolutionary origins in the wild strikes many people as inexplicable; my expectation is that, if true, they planned his report to Fauci because they felt they had to bring the tempest into the teapot.

Another person who has disappointed is the famed evolutionary virologist Andrew Rambaut. To (apparently) be involved in such as scheme as to publish a paper that derived its conclusion from its agenda – to inform that world that (contrary to all evidence) the SARS-CoV-2 virus could not have originated in the lab – is a stain on his career that won’t wash away anytime soon.

Which brings us to the article I want to share with you. It points to the Wellcome Trust as a key player in the alleged cover-up. The article is very, very long and detailed, but when I said that history will remember, this is precisely what I knew would occur.

The article was published a while back by Johnny Vedmore (see: The Wellcome Five – The Proximal Origin of Covid Control – johnnyvedmore.com)

I want to reproduce only part of the article, as, to me, I believe it is the most important – it shows how scientists might sell out to appeal to their funders, something I have never done and never will.

“Andrew Rambaut and Kristian G Andersen – Proximal Origin Clean-up Crew

I had originally started out by building a picture of who these people were by looking at their families, schooling, career history, affiliations, and associations, to try and see any potential pattern which could help build a basic profile of these top table appointees. It cannot be understated, the individuals explored thus far in this article took up key roles and their task was viewed as an incredibly sensitive one for those who have been driving the Covid agenda. If we are to unravel the larger control network, we must build a profile of the people involved as doing so is vital in aiding our recognition of other players. In this case, that necessary profile was very easy to form thanks to the publication of the Proximal Origins of SARS-CoV-2 paper.

There are some other interesting scientists who were involved in the creation of the SARS-CoV-2 origin paper, the first being a man that fits the profile for one of the special 35 graduates who receive almost all of their career-long funding from the Wellcome Trust initiative that has been managed by Holmes since 1994.

Andrew Rambaut is a British evolutionary biologist who, as of 2020, held the position of Professor of Molecular Evolution at the University of Edinburgh. If you were to look at the official Wikipedia entry for Mr. Rambaut, you’d notice that there is, as of writing this, no mention of his participation in the SARS-CoV-2 paper. However, if you were to search his Wiki page’s history, you’d discover that all mentions of his part in the origin paper have been removed, by a computer with the IP address 92.238.235.86, which is also coincidentally based in Edinburgh. The aforementioned IP addresses edits have also included changes on the SARS-Cov-2 wiki entry, suggesting that these actors are still successfully altering the public information. Andrew Rambaut is a relatively young man, he has his entire career ahead of him, so why he agreed to be involved in such a nefarious scheme which was bound to be uncovered in the end?

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Read the rest here.