As proof, they paraded a Hong Kong scientist around right-wing media outlets until her manifest lack of expertise doomed the charade.

Section I of “The Lab-Leak Theory” by Katherine Eban, from Vanity Fair- https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-inside-the-fight-to-uncover-covid-19s-origins”

• 1. No evidence to backup claim of Dr. Yan’s “manifest lack of expertise” or any reference to the Yan Report. No mention of Yan by name.
• 2. Suspicious timing. Eban has not covered the origin of the Covid-19 virus for the entire pandemic. Why now? Only recently, the newly elected president, Biden, has come out in favor of the accidental lab-leak theory as a means of returning the newly vaccinated US to a war-footing with China. Biden now has his 9/11 and can prepare a US war with China.
• 3. History of Vanity Fair as a joint project of the New York Times and Vogue magazine and mouthpiece for imperialism.
• 4. No history of the Predict program, an international epidemiological early warning system shuttered by Trump months before the outbreak.
• 5. NIH strayed into “Tinfoil hat territory.” The National Institute of Health believes in conspiracy theories? You must be out of your mind.
• 6. Rehashing same lie used to defend Anthrax attacks on Congress. Disgruntled lab workers dissatisfied with their research grants took matters into their own hands. This serves only to exculpate the state and heads of state who clearly had their fingers on the trigger ready to fight the “trade war” or the “economic war”, while laying the blame on a handful of scientists. Beyond just the state, at issue is the foundation of society, the economic system giving rise to war and a class that always benefits, the capitalist class. Eliminating these types of “laboratory battles” means eliminating capitalism as a whole, which Eban, a representative of the upper class and elite institutions, clearly has a problem with. They imagine a new world war based on agreements between the US and China that would spare their laboratories, their media personalities, their schools, and their homes, while unleashing the most horrific violence on the general population.
• 7. Eban depends heavily on Damon for his nano-repressive stand against all talk of “gain-of-function” research.

The inflammatory idea of SARS-CoV-2-as-bioweapon has gained traction as an alt-right conspiracy theory, but civilian research under Shi’s supervision that has yet to be made public raises more realistic concerns.

Section XI. of “The Lab-Leak Theory” by Katherine Eban, from Vanity Fair- https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-inside-the-fight-to-uncover-covid-19s-origins”vid-19s-origins )

• 7. (cont.) Instead of pointing to the obvious economic motives underlying a US-Chinese war, Vanity Fair only needs to thoroughly smash the “revolutionary” or nano-bureaucratic argument that no one can discuss the real state of science, especially not a revolutionary party. This type of science of suppressing science threatened the Bolsheviks, forcing Lenin to return to the basics of Marxist philosophy in his battle with Machism discussed in his book Empiro-criticism. Damon’s reaction to Eban basically amounts to displaying jealousy over Eban’s access to important sources. As if her high level of access settles the issue of scientific truth.
• 8. In order to combat both Eban and Damon, Democratic Power must demand the publishing of all information on laboratories and scientists studying virology, atomic weapons, and other weapons, such as chemical weapons, giving imperialist states the capacity to attack large populations. These publications must appear before the largest audiences, in daily newspapers and on television programs, not monthly cultural magazines. These studies must lead to the arrest and imprisonment of scientists for the violation of laws, treaties, and the constitution. They have committed treason by making war on the United States. Rather than accept the murder of doctors and researchers to bury this story, Democratic Power must demand executions of the top scientists involved in weaponizing SARS if the imperialist state continues to protect them and their liberties within the laboratory. Only a World Federation of Workers’ States can accomplish such a legal and moral act of justice.
• 9. Forbidding this, the same scientists will return to the same laboratories to work on another deadly variant or perhaps a variety of chemical gas assaults on the general public. These scientists of elite institutions would only be too glad to oblige. The police have already begun firing expired gas canisters and firing at protesters at point-blank range, meaning they must have been demanding a more sickening or deadly gas to use against the people. One January 6th insurrectionist attacked the Capitol police with a deadly gas that killed the officer with a stroke within 24 hours. Had the insurrection succeeded, these crimes would find forensic scientists to claim the strokes arose from unrelated medical problems.
• 10. Katherine Eban expresses doubts even about a 9/11 Commission to investigate the virus. The 9/11 Commission ignored the obstruction of justice committed by the government and did not arrest anyone in relation to the collaboration of government officials with Osama bin Laden in preparing and defending the terrorists. She hints that she sees success in the government’s efforts in turning investigators away from intentional-use towards accidental-leak hypotheses:

They are now knee-deep in examining the WIV’s construction orders, sewage output, and cell phone traffic. The thought driving Paris Group cofounder Virginie Courtier forward is simple…

Section 12 of “The Lab-Leak Theory” by Katherine Eban, from Vanity Fair- https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-inside-the-fight-to-uncover-covid-19s-origins”

Conclusion:

What the working people of the US, China, and the entire world need is not another “battle of the laboratories” but instead a battle of the philosophers to unmask the cultural and scientific establishment as agents of imperialism, even within the SEP itself. Eban’s decision to open communications with the nano-bureaucracy have come as a reward from on high for the nano-bureaucrat’s unceasing efforts to suppress scientific discussion within the revolutionary movement.