Josh Hawley Confronts Scientist For Engaging In Propaganda Effort To Cast Doubt On Lab Leak Theory

Posted • June 19, 2024: Hawley: “Dr. Garry, you were part of this propaganda effort. I mean, you are right at the center of it. It's astounding. You wrote this piece, this 'Nature' magazine piece or whatever it was that we've heard testimony here today. 'Nature Medicine,' March 17th, 2020. We've heard testimony here today from other scientists on the panel that it's basically an opinion piece. You said at the time, that definitively SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct, is not a laboratory construct. Of course, our own government key agencies have concluded otherwise. And on the basis of this, Dr. Fauci and others cited this -- this piece and went out to use it to mobilize our own government to censor people who asked questions about it. People lost their jobs because of this. They lost their jobs, they lost their standing, they were kicked off Facebook, they were kicked off Twitter. Do you regret being part of this effort, this propaganda effort?”
Garry: “Sir, I -- I was -- I was simply just writing a paper about our scientific opinions about where this virus came from.”
Hawley: “Oh, no, you weren't. You said in an email that we now have, that you tried to withhold that the we have, February 2nd 2020, you wrote, 'I really can't think of a plausible, natural scenario where you can get from the bat virus, or one very similar to it, to this.' I'm quoting you, 'I just can't figure out how this gets accomplished in nature. It's stunning.' Of course, in the lab, it would be easy."“
Garry: “Of course. And I actually figured it out. That's the whole point of that.”