Feature: "This is what they orchestrated, the purpose is to make up lies" – Danish epidemiologists in the new book to expose some Western media distort the truth about the origin of the new crown virus

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Copenhagen, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- Special article: "This is what they carefully arranged, the purpose is to make up lies" - Danish epidemiologists in the new book to expose some Western media distorted the truth about the origin of the new crown virus

Xinhua News Agency reporter Lin Jing

A recent book by Saya Fischer, a member of the World Health Organization's International Expert Group on Traceability of COVID-19, a Danish epidemiologist and professor at the University of Copenhagen, reviews her visit to China as a member of the WHO Expert Group to conduct traceability research. The book uses Fischer's personal experience to expose the ugly behavior of some Western media in reversing black and white and distorting the truth of the traceability.

Smear and distortion in the Western media

In his new Danish book, Virus Detective: Tracing the Origins of the Pandemic, Fischer details two cases that expose the hypocrisy of some Western media. "It made me aware of the role of some of the American media — reversing black and white, distorting the facts, for their own political ends."

Fischer wrote in the book that WHO and the expert group had previously agreed not to disclose the specifics until the official release of the traceability report on the afternoon of March 30, 2021. However, in the morning, the Us "Wall Street Journal" preemptively published a number of articles, pointing directly at the report that has not yet been released. "It was orchestrated by them to fabricate the lie that the WHO report did not answer key questions due to missing data." She said.

The book also exposes the usual tricks of some Western media to distort the opinions of experts and smear China. For example, after the WHO expert team completed its work in China at the beginning of last year, the New York Times reporter interviewed Fischer. She said in the interview that the expert group has been conducting traceability research based on the spirit of science, which is open and transparent. Some disagreements with China are only inevitable at the level of scientific research. The final conclusion is the result of the joint efforts of all parties.

As a result, when the interview appeared in the New York Times on February 12 last year, the headline was "China refuses to hand over important data to WHO." When Fischer saw the report, she realized she had been "set up." "It can be seen from the quotes [they] chose and their connection to the report that The New York Times intended to write a story that focused on conflict and China's attempts to withhold data from the panel, but I don't think that's a fair interpretation of the facts or the point I'm trying to say," she said. ”

Fischer wrote to reporters asking for the interview quote to be withdrawn, but was ignored. After the report was issued, several members of the WHO expert group spoke out on social media, accusing the report of not only not truly reflecting the experience of the expert group's work in China, but also misinterpreting the experts' comments, making the experts' long-term scientific efforts and discoveries questionable.

The facts are behind the science and professionalism

Fischer describes the scientific and professional background of the WHO selection of panel members. "I and other experts were selected on the WHO panel not because of our friendly or hostile attitude towards China or the United States ... We were selected based solely on scientific and professional competence. Our principle is to believe in objective information, to be close to the truth, not to prejudge in advance, and not to engage in presumption of guilt. ”

For the Wuhan Institute of Virology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which has been "demonized" by some Western media, Fischer describes in detail what she knows in the book. She said that the Wuhan Institute of Virology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has the world's largest P4 laboratory, which has absorbed the expert opinions of various countries in the design and construction process, has the most advanced equipment, and adopts the highest operating standards of the world's general biosecurity. "It was built to French and American standards ... It's impressive, and we don't see any sign of the shabby and gloomy 'bat lab' that some media portrays. ”

In the early days of the covid-19 pandemic, it was the US leadership that repeatedly obstructed scientific anti-epidemic measures and failed to provide scientific information to the public in a timely manner, and "political purpose and need" delayed the effective fight against the virus, Fischer pointed out in the book.

The affirmation of Danish academic circles and public opinion

The book "Virus Detective: Tracing the Origin of the Pandemic" was recognized and recommended by the Danish medical community and other parties, and the first edition of the physical writing was sold out within two weeks, and the Danish mainstream media did various interviews with Fischer and her new book.

In his book review of the book, torben Mornsen, president of the Danish Lung Association, he said that the Western media distorted and misread the work of the WHO expert group in China without understanding the expertise and knowledge of the WHO expert group. This confirms a quote from the book that "when you mix politics and science, you get politics."

Morten Sodman, attending physician at Odense University Hospital in Denmark, said in a book review that the book takes readers back to the details of the COVID-19 pandemic and traceability tasks from a scientific perspective. When the conclusions reached by researchers after research are very different from the Western media's "China guilt" presumption, the Western media will quote the interview content out of context to support the answer that has been predetermined.

In introducing the book, the Danish newspaper "Information" mentioned that Fischer, as a member of the WHO expert group, showed empathy for the Chinese professional counterparts he had contacted and cooperated with, and respected their professionalism. At the same time, she ruthlessly exposed the Western media's pre-emptive ambush- and irresponsible reports that only looked at The Eyeballs and stigmatized other countries.