Responding to world-wide demands to investigate the origin of the coronavirus Covid-19, US and Chinese experts have begun collaborating to find out what happened:
“American scientists are working with their Chinese counterparts to investigate the origins of the novel coronavirus, a prime demand of US President Donald Trump and several other countries, an official media report here said on Wednesday. While there is no official announcement here, the state-run CGTN television reported on Wednesday that the China Centre for Disease Control and Prevention is facilitating the cooperation between Dr. Ian Lipikin (sic), Director for Centre for Infection and Immunity of Columbia University, and Prof Lu Jinhai of Sun-Yat-Sen University of Guangzhou to conduct the probe.”
Ian Lipkin has been one of the voices in favor of lock-downs. He is also a strong proponent of the notion that viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 are crossing the boundaries of species because of habitat encroachment and climate-change set off by human activity. He has an extensive record of collaborative work with the WHO, with the CDC, and with Homeland Security. He has a long history of working with Chinese experts and government officials and has received top awards from China. In short, he does not inspire confidence as an investigator of either Chinese or American errors or malfeasance.
That is not all. In 2017, Lipkin was sued by a long-term collaborator for sex-discrimination, plagiarism, fraud,misuse of funds, and the suppression of research into the causes of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome.Mady Hornig, a physician and researcher at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and also Lipkin’s former lover, claims he put his name on her work, undermined her professional relationships, ruined her chance of tenure, and committed other misdeeds.
Hornig’s suit was dismissed in 2018.
Lipkin, whose undergraduate degree is in cultural anthropology not in biological science, took a medical degree, specialized in neurology, and then went on to become a “master virus hunter,” winning the praise of none other than Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases. He advised the government during the Hong-Kong SARS outbreak, and then went on to establish the Institute Pasteur in Shanghai, national Centers for Disease Control in Beijing, and the Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health.
A Guangzhou university expert, Lu Jinhai, is now being asked to join Lipkin in probing the origins of the virus.
Meanwhile, Fauci Gave $3.7 Million to the Wuhan Laboratory in 2014.
Honestly, this does not pass the smell test. Just too many conflicts of interest.