Back in March 2020 PCG posted an article putting forward the dubious idea that COVID-19 originated from a lab in China.
What they have found is alarming but not altogether surprising: COVID-19 appears to be a designer virus, a new breed of Franken-gene unleashed on an unsuspecting public. It appears to be a test-tube, made-in-lab pandemic. ...
Did the COVID-19 virus walk out of the lab in the form of an animal that researchers had tested on and later sold for cash on the black market? It’s happened before in China. Could it have walked out another way—perhaps in patient zero? (Timothy Oostendarp, China’s Test-tube Pandemic, March 26, 2020)
(Some readers may have encountered the author's name before. The previous link addresses a certain tragic issue.)
However the scientific consensus is that the virus that causes COVID-19 originated from nature and was not artificially created by human beings. This has been clear since at least March 2020 when a study noted that it was not similar to the other coronaviruses that were previously known and that it resembled viruses for bats and pangolins instead of the previous coronaviruses that can infect humans.
When America was heading into the catastrophe of a pandemic PCG promoted the unfounded idea that COVID-19 originated from a lab contrary to the studied conclusion of most scientists that this virus arose in nature. It is shameful that this organization that tells its followers that they know what is really happening should provide such a ill founded claim to their readers during this most severe crisis.
(Update: March 8, 2021: An additional sentence in the paragraph after the quote has been added.)
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