Sir Richard Dearlove and the Brexit-COVID gang

this is so weird

"A group of hard-right Brexiteers, including a former head of MI6, secretly attacked a top science journal after their debunked paper on an "alternative" Covid vaccine was rejected."

https://twitter.com/sophie_e_hill/status/1709272754644529194

Two months later, as infection overcame the world, the five Brexiteers and a Norwegian scientist became convinced that the deadly and newly discovered SARS-CoV-2 virus (Covid-19) had been human-made in China. 

 

Yeah, thoroughly insane.

Yeah, thoroughly insane.

er this guy and his similarly brain-worms-addled mates tried to persuade the UK government to commit to purchasing a vaccine from a company in which they owned stock on the basis that no other vaccine would work because of "lab leak"

they then tried to bully Nature into publishing their paper, even going to the lengths of complaining to the publishers and claiming that they were being denied because of Chinese influence

they aggressively touted their theory to various governmental officials and intelligence agencies, to be met with disinterest, which they then misrepresented to others as being very keen interest

it is a bit insane