Synthetic origins of WuhanCovid virus: Chinadaily says French mathematician Jean Perez's work has been proven to be false.but provides no evidence of falsehood ; Perez's work stands unchallenged,and since included in publication co-authored by Nobel Prize winner Luc Montagnier

 by Ganesh Sahathevan

                                         Others have discounted the work of Perez&Montagnier
                                          but not disproven it


Chinadaily has taken aim at the two Frenchmen whose work has shown that the WuhanCovid virus is synthetic: 

Yuan Zhiming, a senior virologist and the president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Wuhan Branch, said "it is impossible" to synthesize the novel coronavirus for it would require "extraordinary knowledge and work" that surpasses current technological capabilities.

Luc Montagnier, who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2008, said in a recent interview that the novel coronavirus was "manipulated and accidentally released from a laboratory in Wuhan" in late 2019 because its genome contained sequences from the HIV virus.

He was immediately panned by scientists around the world, including French virologist Simon Wain Hobson, who said Montagnier based his misinformed accusation on the research by French mathematician Jean Claude Perez, who claimed to find evidence of the virus is partially synthetic but was later proved to be false.

The joint paper by Montagnier and Perez is titled COVID-19, SARS and Bats Coronaviruses Genomes Unexpected Exogeneous RNA Sequences. Its abstract states in part: 

To sum up, here are the two main facts which contribute to our hypothesis of a partially synthetic genome: A contiguous region representing 2.49% of the whole COVID-19 genome is 40.99% made up of 12 diverse Exogeneous  Informative Elements (EIE) fragments originating from various strains of HIV SIV retroviruses. On the other hand, these 12  Exogeneous Informative Elements, some of them appear concatenated, that is to say placed side by side in the genome of COVID-19, and this despite natures, strains, and years of emergence all different.

Jean Perez's original work states: 

The main result of this updated release is the formal proof that 2019-nCoV coronavirus is partially a SYNTHETIC genome. We proof the CONCENTRATION in a small région of wuhan New genome (300bp) of 3 different régions from HIV1 ENVELOPPE gene and 3 others from HIV2 and SIV (ENV and POL RT). All this is remarkable and bears the mark of a desire for organization of a human nature.

Nothing has been published to show that the findings are "false".

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