The Wuhan Cover-Up
Ideological distortions and misinformation in the post-modern age
In my January 12, 2024, commentary, I discussed the recent book by independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., The Wuhan Cover-Up: And the Terrifying Bioweapons Arms Race.1 Kennedy shows that major U.S. funding agencies have been funding Chinese and American researchers conducting change-of-function research, a controversial type of research that deliberately manipulates viruses to increase their transmissibility and severity. Kennedy acknowledges that the Chinese researchers and their American colleagues and sponsors say that they are conducting the research under controlled laboratory conditions in order to advance scientific understanding of the evolution of infectious viruses, so that pandemics and endemics can be prevented or controlled, and strategies can be developed to nullify or contain possible bioterrorist attacks. Kennedy dismisses such explanations as nothing more than pretexts to hide the development of bioweapons. I pointed out in the January 12 co…