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		<title>&#8216;There was a real conspiracy among very powerful scientists. The cover-up was morally repugnant&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2025 10:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Daily Mail (17th March, 2025) Soon after the start of the pandemic, as Covid-19 spread its trail of death and devastation around the planet, I came [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Former CDC boss reveals bombshell new evidence of Covid cover-up and says &#8216;father of the virus&#8217; Fauci concealed Wuhan lab leak to protect US spies embedded in China</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (9th March, 2025) Robert Redfield, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) when the pandemic erupted, has [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Lab leak theory is gaining ground</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2024 16:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (22nd January, 2024) Dominic Cummings is far from the ideal person to deliver warnings about dangers of misinformation, given his track record. Yet [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How Edinburgh University stifled my investigation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2024 16:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by UnHerd (19th January, 2024) Almost 150 years ago, a young medical student at Edinburgh University was inspired by one of his lecturers to devise a detective [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why did Peter Daszak change his mind?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2023 14:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by UnHerd (12th April, 2023) Peter Daszak&#160;spent many years hunting down bat viruses with Chinese scientists, helped fund their cutting-edge research in Wuhan, and then vociferously led [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The real Covid conspiracy</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by UnHerd (11th March, 2023) The departing director of the world’s second biggest philanthropic donor and one of the most influential funders of scientific research was doing [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>So why did the science establishment try so hard to silence those who feared Covid leaked from a Chinese lab?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2022 15:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Daily Mail (12th January, 2022) Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of the world-famous Wellcome Trust, has condemned the policy failures of politicians in the pandemic while [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>So what are they hiding?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2021 11:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (3rd October, 2021) The Government has been condemned after refusing to release details of key email conversations involving leading scientists over the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Is this proof of lab leak lies?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Nov 2021 10:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by UnHerd (10th September, 2021) There are many things we still do not know about the origins of this pandemic —&#160;including the central issue of whether it [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Batwoman dossier</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2021 10:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (15th August, 2021) Slowly but surely, the narrative on the origins of the pandemic has shifted, despite the best efforts of China and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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