The DEFUSE proposal was submitted by EcoHealth Alliance, working with scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and talked about looking for and inserting furin cleavage sites, which make viruses more infectious. We know this from documents obtained by DRASTIC, a group of independent researchers that have been investigating the lab leak theory, and Emily Kopp, an investigative reporter with U.S. Right to Know.
Emails and documents obtained by U.S. Right to Know detail how the proposal authors tried to downplay the research that would be done in China and conceal the role of Chinese researchers.
The proposal was ultimately rejected by DARPA, but provides key information in understanding what really happened in Wuhan.
In this episode, we dive into this proposal, break down what its implications are, and we explore who was really ultimately responsible for what happened in Wuhan.
We also take a look back at history—and a key lie we’ve been told for years that has been used to justify much of our biodefense complex.
