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Corona and the Harvard Connection
By: Beelzeboop Date: June 17, 2020, 4:42 am
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Has anyone noticed, that Harvard's name keeps popping up in the
weeks following the outbreak.
They're getting money.
One of their professors was at the Wuhan lab.
Another professor makes statements about social distancing into
2022.
And...theyre working on a vaccine
And.. They're telling you how to not teach your kids through all
of this.
If they want social distancing into 2022, how can they want a
ban on homeschooling?
Harvard seems to have WWWAAAAYYYY too much of an interest in all
of this.
I'd bet money, they have their hands in planning the script due
the whole event , engineered the virus, will be key to getting
us "the miracle vaccine".
Keep an eye out for anything relating to corona in regard to
Harvard.
It will create an interesting pattern if you put them all
together I bet.
They seem to have far too great an interest in all of this.
Homeschooling ban? Seriously.
HTML https://www.blabber.buz
z/conservative-news/857274-lol-harvard-push-for-homeschool-ban-b
ackfires-amazingly-special
Harvard’s Push for Homeschool Ban, Push For Government Educated
Children, Backfires Amazingly
It got so bad that Harvard Magazine quickly locked down the
public comments section after every single comment ridiculed and
debunked the article peddling the attack on homeschooling. Oops!
As The Newman Report documented last month, a pair of
anti-family tyrants are plotting an anti-homeschooling summit
this summer at Harvard. Law Professor James Dwyer of William and
Mary College specializes in trying to undermine parental rights,
while Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Bartholet is taking a page
out of National Socialist Adolf Hitler's playbook by pushing for
a “presumptive ban” on home education.
In a bizarre diatribe by Erin O'Donnell at Harvard Magazine
about the supposed “risks” of homeschooling that just went
online, Bartholet's dishonesty and totalitarian fantasies were
regurgitated uncritically.
Basically, according to the Bartholet, home education “violates
children’s right” to a “meaningful education” and “their right
to be protected from potential child abuse.”
Of course, in the real world, homeschooled children score far
better on every academic indicator — usually around 30
percentile points higher than victims of government schools, on
the government's own standardized academic tests. They are also
better socialized, and far less likely to be abused than
government-“educated” children.
Next, borrowing totalitarian language from anti-Christian
communist John Dewey, Bartholet claims that homeschooling may
keep children from “contributing positively to a democratic
society.” But again, in the real world, homeschoolers contribute
far more to society than the victims of government schools. That
is true in business, politics, law, academia, science, and more.
Finally, Bartholet goes on to suggest — falsely — that virtually
all homeschool families are conservative Christians, many of
whom “question science and promote female subservience and white
supremacy.
” Seriously. Apparently this is all a threat to “U.S. democracy”
(perhaps she should read The Federalist Papers). The nutty
professor then suggested that the remedy was to forcibly
“expose” all children to “community values,” by which she means
her values of the state über alles.
The rest in the link..
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Re: Corona and the Harvard Connection
By: Beelzeboop Date: June 17, 2020, 4:44 am
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HTML https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/04/harvards-coronavirus-vaccine-efforts/
Age specific vaccines.
Seriously?
Ofer Levy and David Dowling are working toward developing
age-specific vaccines
Team at Harvard plans to launch clinical trial in fall
In Dan Barouch’s lab, many researchers have not taken a day off
since early January, and virtually all are working nearly seven
days week to develop a vaccine that could help end the
coronavirus pandemic.
“Everybody wants to contribute to this global crisis as best
they can,” said Barouch, director of the Center for Virology and
Vaccine Research at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and
professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
The team hopes their work will be worth it. There is cause for
optimism.
The lab developed a vaccine in collaboration with Janssen
Pharmaceutical Cos., the drug-making arm of Johnson & Johnson.
It plans to launch clinical trials in the fall as part of a
joint $1 billion collaboration agreement announced by the U.S.
government and Johnson & Johnson on March 30.
And the push by Barouch’s group is far from the only one out
there. There are currently more than 40 in development around
the world, according to the Milken Institute, an independent
economic think tank in California. The approaches are varied,
but all involve training the body’s immune system to recognize
and remember the virus and produce antibodies to fight the
disease.
Most of the work at Harvard is in its early stages and includes
a number of different vaccine methods. Barouch’s lab at Beth
Israel is the first to move toward clinical trials so far.
Like everyone working on this, “We want to move as fast as we
possibly can, because we think the world needs a vaccine,” said
Barouch ’93, M.D. ’99 . He co-leads the vaccines working group
at Harvard’s Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness and
is also a steering committee member of the Ragon Institute of
MGH, MIT, and Harvard.
A project at the Cambridge biotech Moderna uses the virus’
genetic code to trigger an immune response. It began clinical
trials in Seattle on March 16 and was produced in just 63 days.
Andrea Carfi, Moderna’s head of research, co-leads the vaccines
working group at the consortium with Barouch.
Barouch’s lab began working on two vaccines right after
scientists from China published the gene sequence of the
coronavirus. It’s been a frenzy since.
That first weekend, the team quickly identified the protein
spike as the target region for a vaccine — the coronavirus gets
its name from the crown-like spikes on its surface. By Monday,
Jan. 13, they had designs for vaccine constructs and created
synthetic viral genes. At the end of the month, the lab started
a collaboration with Janssen using one of the company’s
approaches. Basically it involves transporting an adenovirus
that causes a common cold, coated with coronavirus antigens,
into cells to stimulate the immune system to produce antibodies.
By Feb. 6, the group started testing the vaccines in animals.
Barouch’s lab was able to work so quickly on this method because
it has spent the past 15 years working on HIV and, more
recently, Zika vaccines using the same approach. The hospital
has collaborated with Janssen on vaccines in the past.
In mid-February the lab began collaborating with the Chinese
Center for Disease Control and Prevention on their other vaccine
strategy. That one is DNA-based. Like RNA vaccines, it uses the
genetic material of the virus to produce an inoculant that
mimics it, helps the body identify it, and create antibodies to
fight and neutralize it.
At the Precision Vaccines Program (PVP) at Boston Children’s
Hospital, Director Ofer Levy, professor of pediatrics at HMS,
and other researchers — including David Dowling, an HMS
pediatrics instructor — are working toward developing
age-specific vaccines.
“Most vaccine development disregards species specificity or aid
specificity during the preclinical phase,” Levy said. “We’re
turning the process on its head. We’re saying who most suffers
from coronavirus? It’s the elderly. We take elderly white blood
cells, blood donations, test them outside the body, stimulate
them with different small molecules called adjuvants [which are
added to a vaccine to boost the recipient’s immune response],
and then find out which would work best in an elderly
individual.”
The group hopes to build a vaccine targeting infants, as well.
“Infants can get infected and can have bad outcomes, but also
they can spread the infection to others,” Levy said.
Their work is supported by National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Disease.
In the labs of Mahmoud Nasr and Gerhard Wagner, the Elkan Blout
Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at
HMS, researchers have just started work on what’s called a
subunit vaccine. In these vaccines, scientists only use the
essential antigens from a virus, said Nasr, a principal
investigator in the renal division and division of engineering
in medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Wagner and Nasr hope to create a vaccine where several copies of
the coronavirus spike proteins are placed in large phospholipid
nanodiscs that can elicit a strong antibody response by
mimicking the large number of spikes of the virus and their
position in a membrane. It has been shown that presenting
numerous antigens on a membrane environment produces a stronger
response than using non-membrane-bound proteins. This method
will likely require adjuvants and multiple doses to elicit a
strong enough immune response that provides long-term immunity.
At Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired
Engineering, researchers hope to create bioactive material that
cues a stronger immune response against the coronavirus. They
hope the vaccine both kills the virus in infected individuals
and helps uninfected individuals develop longer-lasting immunity
without the need for additional boosts. Led by David Mooney, a
Wyss core faculty member and the Robert P. Pinkas Family
Professor of Bioengineering at Harvard John E. Paulson School of
Engineering and Applied Sciences, the team previously created
cancer vaccines that prompted the immune system to attack and
destroy cancer cells. Other efforts at the Wyss focus on
diagnostics and therapeutics.
“We want to move as fast as we possibly can, because we think
the world needs a vaccine.”
— Dan Barouch
In a related effort, researchers at HMS’s Blavatnik Institute
and at the Brigham hope to use an antibody-detection tool called
VirScan — which they adapted to recognize antibodies for the
novel coronavirus in people’s blood — to help scientists working
on vaccines identify which viral antibodies the immune system
best responds to and which don’t affect the virus.
“[VirScan] can help you follow a vaccine to see how well it’s
making antibodies and what kinds of antibodies,” said Stephen
Elledge, the Gregor Mendel Professor of Genetics and of Medicine
at HMS and Brigham and Women’s, who developed the tool in 2015
with two Ph.D. candidates in his lab. “A lot of the antibodies
you make are just useless. They don’t do anything to the virus
or hurt the virus and they don’t help it. They’re just neutral.
They’re there. Sometimes they even make it easier for the virus
to get into certain cell types … The idea would be that you
would try to remove them from the vaccine, because they’re
competing with the neutralizing antibodies in the vaccine just
as much as they would be with the actual virus.”
While he hopes this effort takes off, Elledge’s primary focus is
on using VirScan as a post-infection tool to study the
outbreak’s true extent, lethality, and epidemiology, and learn
how the virus affects the immune system.
For Barouch, having multiple coronavirus vaccine-related efforts
are crucial, since no one group has all the expertise and each
vaccine will have pros and cons.
“We don’t yet know which vaccine is ultimately going to be the
safest, the most effective, and the most deployable,” Barouch
said. “Ultimately, if we have two or more vaccines that become
available for COVID-19, that would be a good thing because each
vaccine is different. For example, some vaccines might be very
effective in the elderly; some might not. Some might be easier
to produce at mass scale; some might not. Some might be
single-dose regimens, some might be multiple-dose regimens. Each
vaccine is going to have its own particular characteristics.”
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Re: Corona and the Harvard Connection
By: Beelzeboop Date: June 17, 2020, 4:45 am
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HTML https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/14/some-social-distancing-may-be-needed-into-2022-to-keep-coronavirus-in-check-new-study-says/
Some social distancing may be needed into 2022 to keep
coronavirus in check, new Harvard study says
Amodeling study on the new coronavirus warns that intermittent
periods of social distancing may need to persist into 2022 in
the United States to keep the surge of people severely sickened
by Covid-19 from overwhelming the health care system.
The research, published Tuesday in the journal Science, looked
at a range of scenarios for how the SARS-CoV-2 virus will spread
over the next five years. Those scenarios included variables
like whether people who are infected develop short-term immunity
— less than a year — or longer-term protection. But, overall,
the research concludes it is unlikely that life will return any
time soon to the way it was before the virus’ emergence.
The researchers, from Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of
Public Health, acknowledged the economic fallout from the
response to the virus has been profound. And they stressed they
were not advocating one course of action over another.
Our goal in modeling such policies is not to endorse them but to
identify likely trajectories of the epidemic under alternative
approaches,” they wrote. “We do not take a position on the
advisability of these scenarios given the economic burden that
sustained distancing may impose, but we note the potentially
catastrophic burden on the healthcare system that is predicted
if distancing is poorly effective and-or not sustained for long
enough.”
The authors suggest a number of factors will play a major role
in the path the disease will take over the coming years — if
transmission subsides in summer and resurges in winter, if there
is some immunity induced by infection and how long it lasts, and
whether people get any cross-protective immunity from having
been infected with related human coronaviruses that cause common
colds.
The rest in the link.
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Re: Corona and the Harvard Connection
By: Beelzeboop Date: June 17, 2020, 4:46 am
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HTML https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/02/covid-vaccine/607000/
You’re Likely to Get the Coronavirus
Most cases are not life-threatening, which is also what makes
the virus a historic challenge to contain.
The Harvard epidemiology professor Marc Lipsitch is exacting in
his diction, even for an epidemiologist. Twice in our
conversation he started to say something, then paused and said,
“Actually, let me start again.” So it’s striking when one of the
points he wanted to get exactly right was this: “I think the
likely outcome is that it will ultimately not be containable.”
Containment is the first step in responding to any outbreak. In
the case of COVID-19, the possibility (however implausible) of
preventing a pandemic seemed to play out in a matter of days.
Starting in January, China began cordoning off progressively
larger areas, radiating outward from the city of Wuhan and
eventually encapsulating some 100 million people. People were
barred from leaving home, and lectured by drones if they were
caught outside. Nonetheless, the virus has now been found in 24
countries.
Despite the apparent ineffectiveness of such measures—relative
to their inordinate social and economic cost, at least—the
crackdown continues to escalate. Under political pressure to
“stop” the virus, last Thursday the Chinese government announced
that officials in Hubei province would be going door-to-door,
testing people for fevers and looking for signs of illness, then
sending all potential cases to quarantine camps. But even with
the ideal containment, the virus’s spread may have been
inevitable. Testing people who are already extremely sick is an
imperfect strategy if people can spread the virus without even
feeling bad enough to stay home from work.
Lipsitch predicts that within the coming year, some 40 to 70
percent of people around the world will be infected with the
virus that causes COVID-19. But, he clarifies emphatically, this
does not mean that all will have severe illnesses. “It’s likely
that many will have mild disease, or may be asymptomatic,” he
said. As with influenza, which is often life-threatening to
people with chronic health conditions and of older age, most
cases pass without medical care. (Overall, about 14 percent of
people with influenza have no symptoms.)
Lipsitch is far from alone in his belief that this virus will
continue to spread widely. The emerging consensus among
epidemiologists is that the most likely outcome of this outbreak
is a new seasonal disease—a fifth “endemic” coronavirus. With
the other four, people are not known to develop long-lasting
immunity. If this one follows suit, and if the disease continues
to be as severe as it is now, “cold and flu season” could become
“cold and flu and COVID-19 season.”
At this point, it is not even known how many people are
infected. As of Sunday, there have been 35 confirmed cases in
the U.S., according to the World Health Organization. But
Lipsitch’s “very, very rough” estimate when we spoke a week ago
(banking on “multiple assumptions piled on top of each other,”
he said) was that 100 or 200 people in the U.S. were infected.
That’s all it would take to seed the disease widely. The rate of
spread would depend on how contagious the disease is in milder
cases. On Friday, Chinese scientists reported in the medical
journal JAMA an apparent case of asymptomatic spread of the
virus, from a patient with a normal chest CT scan. The
researchers concluded with stolid understatement that if this
finding is not a bizarre abnormality, “the prevention of
COVID-19 infection would prove challenging.”
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And what were these 3 doing .NIH DOD FAUCI FUNDED PROFESSOR
By: Beelzeboop Date: June 17, 2020, 4:51 am
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HTML https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/harvard-university-professor-and-two-chinese-nationals-charged-three-separate-china-related
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Harvard University Professor and Two Chinese Nationals Charged
in Three Separate China Related Cases
The Department of Justice announced today that the Chair of
Harvard University’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department
and two Chinese nationals have been charged in connection with
aiding the People’s Republic of China.
Dr. Charles Lieber, 60, Chair of the Department of Chemistry and
Chemical Biology at Harvard University, was arrested this
morning and charged by criminal complaint with one count of
making a materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statement.
Lieber will appear this afternoon before Magistrate Judge
Marianne B. Bowler in federal court in Boston, Massachusetts.
Yanqing Ye, 29, a Chinese national, was charged in an indictment
today with one count each of visa fraud, making false
statements, acting as an agent of a foreign government and
conspiracy. Ye is currently in China.
Zaosong Zheng, 30, a Chinese national, was arrested on Dec. 10,
2019, at Boston’s Logan International Airport and charged by
criminal complaint with attempting to smuggle 21 vials of
biological research to China. On Jan. 21, 2020, Zheng was
indicted on one count of smuggling goods from the United States
and one count of making false, fictitious or fraudulent
statements. He has been detained since Dec. 30, 2019.
Dr. Charles Lieber
According to court documents, since 2008, Dr. Lieber who has
served as the Principal Investigator of the Lieber Research
Group at Harvard University, which specialized in the area of
nanoscience, has received more than $15,000,000 in grant funding
from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Department of
Defense (DOD). These grants require the disclosure of
significant foreign financial conflicts of interest, including
financial support from foreign governments or foreign entities.
Unbeknownst to Harvard University beginning in 2011, Lieber
became a “Strategic Scientist” at Wuhan University of Technology
(WUT) in China and was a contractual participant in China’s
Thousand Talents Plan from in or about 2012 to 2017. China’s
Thousand Talents Plan is one of the most prominent Chinese
Talent recruit plans that are designed to attract, recruit, and
cultivate high-level scientific talent in furtherance of China’s
scientific development, economic prosperity and national
security. These talent programs seek to lure Chinese overseas
talent and foreign experts to bring their knowledge and
experience to China and reward individuals for stealing
proprietary information. Under the terms of Lieber’s three-year
Thousand Talents contract, WUT paid Lieber $50,000 USD per
month, living expenses of up to 1,000,000 Chinese Yuan
(approximately $158,000 USD at the time) and awarded him more
than $1.5 million to establish a research lab at WUT. In
return, Lieber was obligated to work for WUT “not less than nine
months a year” by “declaring international cooperation projects,
cultivating young teachers and Ph.D. students, organizing
international conference[s], applying for patents and publishing
articles in the name of” WUT.
The complaint alleges that in 2018 and 2019, Lieber lied about
his involvement in the Thousand Talents Plan and affiliation
with WUT. On or about, April 24, 2018, during an interview with
investigators, Lieber stated that he was never asked to
participate in the Thousand Talents Program, but he “wasn’t
sure” how China categorized him. In November 2018, NIH inquired
of Harvard whether Lieber had failed to disclose his
then-suspected relationship with WUT and China’s Thousand
Talents Plan. Lieber caused Harvard to falsely tell NIH that
Lieber “had no formal association with WUT” after 2012, that
“WUT continued to falsely exaggerate” his involvement with WUT
in subsequent years, and that Lieber “is not and has never been
a participant in” China’s Thousand Talents Plan.
Yanqing Ye
According to the indictment, Ye is a Lieutenant of the People’s
Liberation Army (PLA), the armed forces of the People’s Republic
of China and member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). On
her J-1 visa application, Ye falsely identified herself as a
“student” and lied about her ongoing military service at the
National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), a top military
academy directed by the CCP. It is further alleged that while
studying at Boston University’s (BU) Department of Physics,
Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering from October 2017 to April
2019, Ye continued to work as a PLA Lieutenant completing
numerous assignments from PLA officers such as conducting
research, assessing U.S. military websites and sending U.S.
documents and information to China.
According to court documents, on April 20, 2019, federal
officers interviewed Ye at Boston’s Logan International Airport.
During the interview, it is alleged that Ye falsely claimed that
she had minimal contact with two NUDT professors who were
high-ranking PLA officers. However, a search of Ye’s electronic
devices demonstrated that at the direction of one NUDT
professor, who was a PLA Colonel, Ye had accessed U.S. military
websites, researched U.S. military projects and compiled
information for the PLA on two U.S. scientists with expertise in
robotics and computer science. Furthermore, a review of a
WeChat conversation revealed that Ye and the other PLA official
from NUDT were collaborating on a research paper about a risk
assessment model designed to decipher data for military
applications. During the interview, Ye admitted that she held
the rank of Lieutenant in the PLA and admitted she was a member
of the CCP.
Zaosong Zheng
In August 2018, Zheng entered the United States on a J-1 visa
and conducted cancer-cell research at Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center in Boston from Sept. 4, 2018, to Dec. 9, 2019. It
is alleged that on Dec. 9, 2019, Zheng stole 21 vials of
biological research and attempted to smuggle them out of the
United States aboard a flight destined for China. Federal
officers at Logan Airport discovered the vials hidden in a sock
inside one of Zheng’s bags, and not properly packaged. It is
alleged that initially, Zheng lied to officers about the
contents of his luggage, but later admitted he had stolen the
vials from a lab at Beth Israel. Zheng stated that he intended
to bring the vials to China to use them to conduct research in
his own laboratory and publish the results under his own name.
The charge of making false, fictitious and fraudulent statements
provides for a sentence of up to five years in prison, three
years of supervised release and a fine of $250,000. The charge
of visa fraud provides for a sentence of up to 10 years in
prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of
$250,000. The charge of acting as an agent of a foreign
government provides for a sentence of up to 10 years in prison,
three years of supervised release and a fine of $250,000. The
charge of conspiracy provides for a sentence of up to five years
in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of
$250,000. The charge of smuggling goods from the United States
provides for a sentence of up to 10 years in prison, three years
of supervised release and a fine of $250,000. Sentences are
imposed by a federal district court judge based upon the U.S.
Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
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Re: And what were these 3 doing .NIH DOD FAUCI FUNDED PROFESSOR
By: Beelzeboop Date: June 17, 2020, 4:53 am
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HTML https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/harvard-university-professor-and-two-chinese-nationals-charged-three-separate-china-related
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Harvard University Professor and Two Chinese Nationals Charged
in Three Separate China Related Cases
The Department of Justice announced today that the Chair of
Harvard University’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department
and two Chinese nationals have been charged in connection with
aiding the People’s Republic of China.
Dr. Charles Lieber, 60, Chair of the Department of Chemistry and
Chemical Biology at Harvard University, was arrested this
morning and charged by criminal complaint with one count of
making a materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statement.
Lieber will appear this afternoon before Magistrate Judge
Marianne B. Bowler in federal court in Boston, Massachusetts.
Yanqing Ye, 29, a Chinese national, was charged in an indictment
today with one count each of visa fraud, making false
statements, acting as an agent of a foreign government and
conspiracy. Ye is currently in China.
Zaosong Zheng, 30, a Chinese national, was arrested on Dec. 10,
2019, at Boston’s Logan International Airport and charged by
criminal complaint with attempting to smuggle 21 vials of
biological research to China. On Jan. 21, 2020, Zheng was
indicted on one count of smuggling goods from the United States
and one count of making false, fictitious or fraudulent
statements. He has been detained since Dec. 30, 2019.
Dr. Charles Lieber
According to court documents, since 2008, Dr. Lieber who has
served as the Principal Investigator of the Lieber Research
Group at Harvard University, which specialized in the area of
nanoscience, has received more than $15,000,000 in grant funding
from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Department of
Defense (DOD). These grants require the disclosure of
significant foreign financial conflicts of interest, including
financial support from foreign governments or foreign entities.
Unbeknownst to Harvard University beginning in 2011, Lieber
became a “Strategic Scientist” at Wuhan University of Technology
(WUT) in China and was a contractual participant in China’s
Thousand Talents Plan from in or about 2012 to 2017. China’s
Thousand Talents Plan is one of the most prominent Chinese
Talent recruit plans that are designed to attract, recruit, and
cultivate high-level scientific talent in furtherance of China’s
scientific development, economic prosperity and national
security. These talent programs seek to lure Chinese overseas
talent and foreign experts to bring their knowledge and
experience to China and reward individuals for stealing
proprietary information. Under the terms of Lieber’s three-year
Thousand Talents contract, WUT paid Lieber $50,000 USD per
month, living expenses of up to 1,000,000 Chinese Yuan
(approximately $158,000 USD at the time) and awarded him more
than $1.5 million to establish a research lab at WUT. In
return, Lieber was obligated to work for WUT “not less than nine
months a year” by “declaring international cooperation projects,
cultivating young teachers and Ph.D. students, organizing
international conference[s], applying for patents and publishing
articles in the name of” WUT.
The complaint alleges that in 2018 and 2019, Lieber lied about
his involvement in the Thousand Talents Plan and affiliation
with WUT. On or about, April 24, 2018, during an interview with
investigators, Lieber stated that he was never asked to
participate in the Thousand Talents Program, but he “wasn’t
sure” how China categorized him. In November 2018, NIH inquired
of Harvard whether Lieber had failed to disclose his
then-suspected relationship with WUT and China’s Thousand
Talents Plan. Lieber caused Harvard to falsely tell NIH that
Lieber “had no formal association with WUT” after 2012, that
“WUT continued to falsely exaggerate” his involvement with WUT
in subsequent years, and that Lieber “is not and has never been
a participant in” China’s Thousand Talents Plan.
Yanqing Ye
According to the indictment, Ye is a Lieutenant of the People’s
Liberation Army (PLA), the armed forces of the People’s Republic
of China and member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). On
her J-1 visa application, Ye falsely identified herself as a
“student” and lied about her ongoing military service at the
National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), a top military
academy directed by the CCP. It is further alleged that while
studying at Boston University’s (BU) Department of Physics,
Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering from October 2017 to April
2019, Ye continued to work as a PLA Lieutenant completing
numerous assignments from PLA officers such as conducting
research, assessing U.S. military websites and sending U.S.
documents and information to China.
According to court documents, on April 20, 2019, federal
officers interviewed Ye at Boston’s Logan International Airport.
During the interview, it is alleged that Ye falsely claimed that
she had minimal contact with two NUDT professors who were
high-ranking PLA officers. However, a search of Ye’s electronic
devices demonstrated that at the direction of one NUDT
professor, who was a PLA Colonel, Ye had accessed U.S. military
websites, researched U.S. military projects and compiled
information for the PLA on two U.S. scientists with expertise in
robotics and computer science. Furthermore, a review of a
WeChat conversation revealed that Ye and the other PLA official
from NUDT were collaborating on a research paper about a risk
assessment model designed to decipher data for military
applications. During the interview, Ye admitted that she held
the rank of Lieutenant in the PLA and admitted she was a member
of the CCP.
Zaosong Zheng
In August 2018, Zheng entered the United States on a J-1 visa
and conducted cancer-cell research at Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center in Boston from Sept. 4, 2018, to Dec. 9, 2019. It
is alleged that on Dec. 9, 2019, Zheng stole 21 vials of
biological research and attempted to smuggle them out of the
United States aboard a flight destined for China. Federal
officers at Logan Airport discovered the vials hidden in a sock
inside one of Zheng’s bags, and not properly packaged. It is
alleged that initially, Zheng lied to officers about the
contents of his luggage, but later admitted he had stolen the
vials from a lab at Beth Israel. Zheng stated that he intended
to bring the vials to China to use them to conduct research in
his own laboratory and publish the results under his own name.
The charge of making false, fictitious and fraudulent statements
provides for a sentence of up to five years in prison, three
years of supervised release and a fine of $250,000. The charge
of visa fraud provides for a sentence of up to 10 years in
prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of
$250,000. The charge of acting as an agent of a foreign
government provides for a sentence of up to 10 years in prison,
three years of supervised release and a fine of $250,000. The
charge of conspiracy provides for a sentence of up to five years
in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of
$250,000. The charge of smuggling goods from the United States
provides for a sentence of up to 10 years in prison, three years
of supervised release and a fine of $250,000. Sentences are
imposed by a federal district court judge based upon the U.S.
Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
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Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers,
United States Attorney Andrew E. Lelling; Special Agent in
Charge of the FBI Boston Field Division Joseph R. Bonavolonta;
Michael Denning, Director of Field Operations, U.S. Customs and
Border Protection, Boston Field Office; Leigh-Alistair Barzey,
Special Agent in Charge of the Defense Criminal Investigative
Service, Northeast Field Office; Philip Coyne, Special Agent in
Charge of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
Office of Inspector General; and William Higgins, Special Agent
in Charge of the U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of Export
Enforcement, Boston Field Office made the announcement.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys B. Stephanie Siegmann, Jason Casey and
Benjamin Tolkoff of Lelling’s National Security Unit are
prosecuting these cases with the assistance of trial attorneys
William Mackie and David Aaron at the National Security
Division’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section.
The details contained in the charging documents are allegations.
The defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven
guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
These case are part of the Department of Justice’s China
Initiative, which reflects the strategic priority of countering
Chinese national security threats and reinforces the President’s
overall national security strategy. In addition to identifying
and prosecuting those engaged in trade secret theft, hacking and
economic espionage, the initiative will increase efforts to
protect our critical infrastructure against external threats
including foreign direct investment, supply chain threats and
the foreign agents seeking to influence the American public and
policymakers without proper registration.
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Re: Corona and the Harvard Connection
By: Beelzeboop Date: June 17, 2020, 4:59 am
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No idea why the like is thru half of that .
I didn't put it there ..
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Re: Corona and the Harvard Connection
By: Beelzeboop Date: June 17, 2020, 5:00 am
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The "Liberal Democrat Party!" certainly has an eclectic base.
Inside the Chinese lab poised to study world's most dangerous
pathogens
David Cyranoski, 22 February 2017
[...]
"The lab was designed and constructed with French assistance as
part of a 2004 cooperative agreement on the prevention and
control of emerging infectious diseases. But the complexity of
the project, China’s lack of experience, difficulty in
maintaining funding and long government approval procedures
meant that construction wasn’t finished until the end of 2014."
HTML https://www.nature.com/news/inside-the-chinese-lab-poised-to-study-world-s-most-dangerous-pathogens-1.21487
Institute Of Virology - Partnerships
USA
University of Alabama
University of North Texas
EcoHealth Alliance
Harvard University
The National Institutes of Health, the United States
National Wildlife Federation
Canada
International Development Research Center
Europe
Umé University
Novo Nordisk Research Centre
Université d’Aix-Marseille
University of Duisburg-Essen
Institut Pasteur, France
University of Southampton
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Campus Univ, Spain
St George's University of London
Wagenigen Agriculture University
Lyon P4 Laboratory, France
AFSSAPS
AFNOR
INSERM Jean Merieux
Asia
Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore
Biological Research Center, Defense Science and Technology
Organization, Pakistan
National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan
Institution Novartis, Singapore
National Engineering and Scientific Commission, Islambad
Africa
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
Kenya National Museum
Australia
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization
International Organizations
European Union
Food and Agriculture Organization, UN
World Health Organization
HTML http://english.whiov.cas.cn/International_Cooperation2016/Partnerships/
US, Canada have funded Chinese lab eyed as likely source of
coronavirus outbreak
By Tyler Olson
[...]
"It is not clear exactly how much U.S. funding went directly to
the Wuhan Institute of Virology because it worked in
collaboration with other institutions on the projects funded by
the American grants"
HTML https://www.foxnews.com/politics/u-s-canada-have-funded-chinese-lab
Media silent over U.S. taxpayer dollars funding the Wuhan
Institute of Virology
Ted Cruz and Michael J. Knowles dropped a bombshell. Mainstream
media won't cover it, of course.
by JD Rucker April 19, 2020
[...]
“In fiscal year 2019, the funding for the Wuhan Institute for
Virology was $76,301,” Cruz said..."
HTML https://noqreport.com/2020/04/19/media-silent-over-u-s-taxpayer-dollars-funding-the-wuhan-institute-of-virology/
Curiously, an engineered virus was created in the US in 2015,
shortly after the Obama admin suspended further research into
virus creation.
US suspends risky disease research
Government to cease funding gain-of-function studies that make
viruses more dangerous, pending a safety assessment.
Sara Reardon, 22 October 2014
The US government surprised many researchers on 17 October when
it announced that it will temporarily stop funding new research
that makes certain viruses more deadly or transmissible. The
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy is also
asking researchers who conduct such ‘gain-of-function’
experiments on influenza, severe acute respiratory syndrome
(SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) to stop their
work until a risk assessment is completed — leaving many unsure
of how to proceed...
HTML https://www.nature.com/news/us-suspends-risky-disease-research-1.16192
Engineered bat virus stirs debate over risky research
Lab-made coronavirus related to SARS can infect human cells.
Declan Butler, 12 November 2015
[...]
Creation of a chimaera
The argument is essentially a rerun of the debate over whether
to allow lab research that increases the virulence, ease of
spread or host range of dangerous pathogens — what is known as
‘gain-of-function’ research. In October 2014, the US government
imposed a moratorium on federal funding of such research on the
viruses that cause SARS, influenza and MERS (Middle East
respiratory syndrome, a deadly disease caused by a virus that
sporadically jumps from camels to people).
The latest study was already under way before the US moratorium
began, and the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) allowed it
to proceed while it was under review by the agency, says Ralph
Baric, an infectious-disease researcher at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a co-author of the study...
HTML https://www.nature.com/news/engineered-bat-virus-stirs-debate-over-risky-research-1.18787?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews
Speaking of not-entirely-unprepared UNC:
Scientists Are Already Working on Cures for Coronavirus
After the SARS and MERS outbreaks, the NIH got to work funding
potential cures.
By Faye Flam, January 25, 2020
We aren’t completely unprepared for the Wuhan coronavirus now
spreading around the world. Just ask the people who work in
Tyvek suits and respirators, such as epidemiologist Timothy
Sheahan of the University of North Carolina...
HTML https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-01-25/coronavirus-cures-are-already-in-progress-thanks-to-nih-funding
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Re: Corona and the Harvard Connection
By: Beelzeboop Date: June 17, 2020, 5:02 am
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Harvardtards are decrying the reopening of the country, and now
THIS.
WHO ISN'T INVOLVED WITH THIS??!
Why the hell do they need any of this money??!?
I bet a closer look at other Harvard biology professors might
yield some interesting tidbits.
HTML https://www.newsweek.com/harvard-40-billion-endowment-will-receive-87-million-federal-aid-coronavirus-relief-1498366
HARVARD, WITH A $40 BILLION ENDOWMENT, WILL RECEIVE $8.7 MILLION
IN FEDERAL AID FOR CORONAVIRUS RELIEF
Harvard will receive $8,655,748 in federal aid for coronavirus
relief despite having a $40 billion endowment.
The Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper, posted news of the
federal aid on its Twitter account: "Harvard University will
receive nearly $9 million in aid from the federal government
through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act,
the Department of Education announced last week."
The rest in the link
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Re: Corona and the Harvard Connection
By: Beelzeboop Date: June 17, 2020, 5:02 am
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author=𝕭𝖊𝖊𝖑𝖟𝖊
20173;𝖔𝖔𝖕
link=topic=157.msg2832#msg2832 date=1592388120]
Harvardtards are decrying the reopening of the country, and now
THIS.
WHO ISN'T INVOLVED WITH THIS??!
Why the hell do they need any of this money??!?
I bet a closer look at other Harvard biology professors might
yield some interesting tidbits.
HTML https://www.newsweek.com/harvard-40-billion-endowment-will-receive-87-million-federal-aid-coronavirus-relief-1498366
HARVARD, WITH A $40 BILLION ENDOWMENT, WILL RECEIVE $8.7 MILLION
IN FEDERAL AID FOR CORONAVIRUS RELIEF
Harvard will receive $8,655,748 in federal aid for coronavirus
relief despite having a $40 billion endowment.
The Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper, posted news of the
federal aid on its Twitter account: "Harvard University will
receive nearly $9 million in aid from the federal government
through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act,
the Department of Education announced last week."
The rest in the link
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Once this news came out ,I think they deferred the money
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