For some reason I forgot to include this in my last post, but I think it is sufficiently entertaining and revealing to warrant a post all to itself. Birger Sorensen (above left) is chairman of Bionor, a company trying to develop a vaccine for HIV. He has been involved in the development of several patented vaccines. Angus Dalgleish (above right) is an oncologist at Cancer Center London. His main research interests are the role of viruses in causing cancer and the development of vaccines against cancer. These two men do not believe SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, arose naturally. Instead, they believe it was deliberately created by labs in China.
Sorensen and Dalgleish have written a paper describing the evidence they believe supports this conclusion and, after being rejected by several other journals, it has apparently been accepted for publication by a journal called QRB Discovery. As of this writing, the article has not yet been published. However, an advance copy was provided to that respectable scientific publication The Daily Mail (headline below), with whom the authors also sat down for an interview.
Below is an excerpt from the Daily Mail article. You will be shocked to discover that, not only are those sneaky Chinese bioengineering deadly viruses in secret labs, but they have also developed the ability to defy the laws of physics.
One tell-tale sign of alleged manipulation the two men highlighted was a row of four amino acids they found on the SARS-Cov-2 spike.
In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, Sørensen said the amino acids all have a positive charge, which cause the virus to tightly cling to the negatively charged parts of human cells like a magnet, and so become more infectious.
But because, like magnets, the positively charged amino acids repel each other, it is rare to find even three in a row in naturally occurring organisms, while four in a row is ‘extremely unlikely,’ the scientist said.
‘The laws of physics mean that you cannot have four positively charged amino acids in a row. The only way you can get this is if you artificially manufacture it,’ Dalgleish told DailyMail.com.
Their new paper says these features of SARS-Cov-2 are ‘unique fingerprints’ which are ‘indicative of purposive manipulation’, and that ‘the likelihood of it being the result of natural processes is very small.’
It didn’t take long for scientists to respond to the story and point out that, contrary to Dr. Dalgleish’s claim, 33% of proteins in the human body contain four or more consecutive positively charged amino acid residues, with one having as many as twenty-two.
The prevalence of arguments like this is why it is very hard to take the lab leak theory seriously.