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Art Moore(WND)

A new pre-print study(LINK) has concluded the virus that causes COVID-19 has a unique “fingerprint” indicating it originated in a laboratory rather than in nature.

Dr. Alex Washburne, a mathematical biologist, worked with researchers in the U.S. and Germany who studied the SARS-CoV-2 genome sequence and compared it to previously discovered coronaviruses.

They detected “peculiar patterns” they concluded were the hallmark of a manufactured virus, describing it having a “synthetic fingerprint.”

Meanwhile, Jeffrey Sachs, chairman of The Lancet COVID-19 Commission, a task force that investigated the origins of COVID-19, has concluded after 22 months of study that SARS-CoV-2 probably was laboratory-generated and that the technology likely came from gain-of-function research funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

The “synthetic fingerprint” discovered in the new study led by Washburne, says Sachs in an article published by Children’s Health Defense, points to the work of Dr. Ralph Baric, a virologist at the University of North Carolina known for his NIH-funded gain-of-function research in cooperation with the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Baric has developed a controversial “seamless ligation” technique designed to conceal evidence of human tampering in laboratory-created viruses. Baric nicknamed his invention the “no-see’m” method.

“It’s the artist that doesn’t sign his name to the painting; the virologist that doesn’t put his signature into the virus to let us know whether or not it is emerging naturally or whether it is produced in a laboratory,” said Sachs.

“All of it says, my God, there was really a big, very risky research agenda underway.”

Evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein called Baric’s technique is the “exact opposite of what you would do if your interest was public health.” Public health scientists would be marking their enhancements with red flags – not devising ways to hide them. The only reason you would want a concealer is to advance a sinister purpose – such as illegal bioweapons development – some mischief that the scientist didn’t want traceable back to his lab.”

Baric taught his technique to the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s leading coronavirus researcher, Shi Zhengli, in 2016, CHD reported. In return, Baric received Chinese coronaviruses collected by Shi from bats in China’s Yunnan province.

‘If I am proven wrong I will change my mind’

In a post on Substack, Washburne reacted to criticism that his study was “very poorly controlled” and “cherry-picked.”

“The topic is personally relevant to every person capable of being infected by a virus or impacted by pandemic policies,” he wrote. “I invite people to prove us wrong and, if they do so, even if there are flaws in their work, I will not call them names or attack their credentials.

“I will celebrate their ingenuity and commitment to the Truth, and if I am proven wrong I will change my mind,” he promised.

Washburne said science “can save lives and revolutionize our civilization, but only if scientists and our broader society remain honest, curious, and open-minded.”

Professor Francois Balloux, a professor of computational biology at University College London, called the study “an important piece of work.”

“To me, it looks solid both conceptually and methodologically,” he wrote on Twitter. “I was given advance warning and was able to replicate the key findings. To the best of my knowledge, I confirm the reported patterns are genuine.”

Balloux said the “distribution of restriction sites in SARS-CoV-2 is highly atypical when compared to related viruses in circulation, and far more in line with previous lab-engineered coronaviruses.”

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