New details about the scientists' position on the lab leak theory, which theorizes that the COVID-19 virus leaked from a Laboratory in China, came to light after members of the U.S. Republican House Oversight Committee were given access to the email documents.
The Committee complained that the content of the emails had been heavily redacted when released under Freedom of Information requests, according to The Telegraph.
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The emails were sent in response to a teleconference that took place between 12 scientists, including the U.K. Government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance on February 1.
On February 2, 2020, Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust, sent an email that stated "a likely explanation" was that COVID had rapidly evolved from a SARS-like virus inside human tissue in a low-security lab.
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The email, sent to Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Francis Collins, persisted to state that such an evolution in the virus may have "accidentally created a virus primed for rapid transmission between humans."
Despite these troubles, a leading scientist told Farrar that "further debate would do unnecessary harm to science in general and science in China in particular."
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Dr. Collins, the former director of the US National Institutes of Health, warned such debate could damage "international harmony."
"These emails show a lamentable lack of openness and transparency among Western scientists who appear to have been more interested in shutting down a hypothesis they thought was very plausible, for political reasons," announced Viscount Ridley, co-author of Viral: the search for the origin of COVID.
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Farrar wrote in the emails that other scientists further thought that the virus could not have matured naturally. One of these scientists was Professor Mike Farzan, of Scripps Research, the specialists who discovered how the original Sars virus binds to human cells.
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In particular, scientists were concerned about a part of COVID-19 called the furin cleavage site, "a section of the spike protein which helps it enter cells and makes it so infectious to humans," according to The Telegraph.
"He is bothered by the furin site and has a hard time (to) explain that as an event outside the lab, though there are possible ways in nature but highly unlikely," Farrar wrote in an email, summarizing Farzan's concerns.
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"I think this becomes a question of how do you put all this together, whether you believe in this series of coincidences, what you know of the lab in Wuhan, how much could be in nature - accidental release or natural event? I am 70:30 or 60:40," he went on.
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