The only Australian scientist at the Wuhan Institute of Virology speaks out.

Here’s the thing: that the WIV was a BSL-4-capable lab means nothing because at the time bat coronoviruses were not seen as particularly dangerous to humans, so they were often worked on at BSL-3 and even BSL-2, both of which have much, much less stringent safety controls (about like your average dentist office).

These articles emerge from scientists who are justifiably concerned about their research being curtailed attempting to prevent that from occurring. That’s why you’ve been seeing all these articles and Twitter threads full of distortions and/or direct lies about how just super super safe the labs all are, there is no chance anything has escaped ever, they make every single little virus have a little door key card, etc., etc.

Understand why this rash of articles is occurring and it begins to make more sense. Most of them are full of easily-disproven misstatements and fabrications.