Scholars from many countries believe that laboratory leaks conspiracy theories undermine global anti-epidemic efforts

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 31 - Summary: multi-national scholars believe that "laboratory leak" conspiracy to undermine global efforts to fight the epidemic

Xinhua News Agency reporter

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A recent report in The Wall Street Journal cited so-called "intelligence" that three scientific researchers from Wuhan Institute of Virology were hospitalized with a serious illness in November 2019, with "symptoms consistent with the new crown infection and common seasonal diseases.

Professor Matthias Graublecht, director of the Natural History Center of the University of Hamburg, Germany, said in an interview with local media recently that it is impossible to verify whether the so-called "intelligence" in the relevant report of the Wall Street Journal actually exists, what is the content, or evidence.

Graublecht said this statement contradicts the current public research results.

In an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Dominique Dwyer, a member of the International Expert Group for Research on the Traceability of the New Coronavirus at the World Health Organization and a professor at the University of Sydney, Australia, said that the US intelligence services have so far failed to provide any useful information.

Jeremy Faller, director of the Wellcome Foundation in the United Kingdom, said in a statement a few days ago that the answer to the origin of the new coronavirus can only be found in reliable scientific evidence, and there have been too many speculations and theories without data or evidence.

Many scholars believe that politicizing scientific issues will not only help the real effort to find the origin of the new crown virus, but will also undermine the cooperation of scientists from various countries on traceability research.

Michael Ryan, Executive Director of WHO's Health Emergency Project, emphasized at a press conference a few days ago that the entire traceability process has been poisoned by politics, "putting WHO in the current situation is very unfair to the scientific work we are trying to carry out", "We require (in traceability research) to separate science from politics, so that we can find the answers we need in an appropriate positive atmosphere.

The British "Nature" magazine website recently quoted Christian Anderson, a virologist at the Scripps Research Institute in the United States, as saying that there is no strong evidence to support the new coronavirus "laboratory leak", saying that he is worried about this "full of hostility.

The article also quoted Amanda Glassman, a global health expert at the Global Development Center, a US think tank, as saying, “We need to focus on the overall situation and focus on the incentive mechanism that enables us to move in the direction of need.