Some people say we will never know, not until China confesses, or unless there’s a whistle blower — but, well, we have a whistle blower: it was the virus itself. It came here; it came out of China; and it carried [to] us genetic information. . . . Yes, it was a laboratory leak.
Dr. Richard Muller, after discussing how China blacklists scientists who would gather and publish evidence for a laboratory leak hypothesis for origins of the CCP virus, before the GOP House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Select Coronavirus Crisis hearing, June 29, 2021. “China has managed to interfere, to break, United States’ freedom of expression freedom of investigation, freedom of thought.” He advanced five facts to show the gain-of-function origin of SARS-CoV-2: (1) Lack of pre-pandemic infections; (2) absence of a host animal; (3) unprecedented genetic purity; (4) no known way for the spike mutation to get there except by gene mutation in a laboratory; (5) optimized to attack humans, “again something that had never happened in … natural releases — but it does happen if you run it through the gain-of-function.”
Note: the bracketed word is in place of a sic notice. Dr. Muller misspoke and said “with us” instead of what he obviously intended, “to us” or, perhaps, “with itself.”