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The authors of this paper, Angus Dalgleish and Richard Billing Dearlove claims were rejected by multiple medical journals. Dearlove left MI6 in 2004, over 20 years ago. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/coronavirus-chinese-laboratory-wuhan-mi6-richard-dearlove-conspiracy-theories-a9547851.html https://bylinetimes.com/2023/10/02/the-brexit-conspiracy-files-top-science-journal-faced-secret-attacks/ https://www.scotsman.com/health/former-mi6-chief-has-said-he-believes-that-covid-19-accidentally-escaped-from-a-chinese-lab-2874499 https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366553435/Top-science-journal-faced-secret-attacks-from-Covid-conspiracy-theory-group A US Director of National Intelligence report disputes their claims on SARS-CoV-2 origins https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Report-on-Potential-Links-Between-the-Wuhan-Institute-of-Virology-and-the-Origins-of-COVID-19-20230623.pdf
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