zerohedge | So did we have a right to ask the question if there is an alternative
version for the emergence of the Coronavirus pandemic, especially with
hundreds if not thousands of lives at stake? Absolutely.
As for Broderick's statement that Peng was "accused falsely" we
wonder how he knows this: did he speak to Peng? Did he get any comments?
Did he get an official denial? No, he did not: as
he writes, "BuzzFeed News has reached out to the scientist, whom it is
declining to name." So, it actually turns out that it is Buzzfeed that
is once again presenting a false statement as fact, something Buzzfeed
has been accused of doing over and over and over.
Meanwhile, those who wonder if Dr. Zhou has any link to the possible
emergence of the Coronavirus following years of experimenting with bats,
we urge you to read our full article instead of relying on the hearsay of ideologically biased journalists.
Second, and contrary to the claims presented by Buzzfeed, we did not release any "personal information": Peng Zhou (周鹏) is a public figure, and all the contact information that we presented was pulled from his publicly posted bio found on a website at the Wuhan Institute of Virology which anyone with access to the internet can pull from the following URL: http://sourcedb.whiov.cas.cn/zw/rck/201705/t20170505_4783973.html, which is also the information we used.
So about Buzzfeed's allegation, which was adopted by Twitter, that somehow we incited "targeted abuse", here is what we said:
Something tells us, if anyone wants to find out what really caused the coronavirus pandemic that has infected thousands of people in China and around the globe, they should probably pay Dr. Peng a visit.
To which we then added the information obtained from his own bio page on the Institute's website:
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