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2025-02-03 03:08:55 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: D08ABFF9B88880DF3039AFF1432EF9E1FDDC377B00C61A55ECF5CE36369837C2
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The DEFUSE proposal was submitted to DARPA in 2018 by EcoHealth Alliance, but it was rejected, and the proposed research was never done: https://assets.ctfassets.net/syq3snmxclc9/5OjsrkkXHfuHps6Lek1MO0/5e7a0d86d5d67e8d153555400d9dcd17/defuse-project-rejection-by-darpa.pdf https://www.mintpressnews.com/lab-leak-gain-function-media-myths-swirling-around-wuhan-institute/278555/ https://www.ecohealthalliance.org/2024/04/ecohealth-alliance-response-to-the-april-9-2024-article-the-great-covid-cover-up-shocking-truth-about-wuhan-and-15-federal-agencies While SARS-CoV-2 may have escaped from a lab, the virus does not appear to be genetically modified https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2211107119 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00705-020-04750-z https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/03/who-deeply-frustrated-by-lack-of-us-transparency-on-covid-origin-data/ https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8337
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