Virologist tells Steve Bannon his coronavirus conspiracy theory theory is from “crackpot websites” and is a “load of crap”
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Citation From the February 14, 2020, edition of War Room: Pandemic
STEVE BANNON (HOST): We have all the genome sequencing, or are we missing anything? You've seen it all?
DR. STEVEN HATFILL: Yes.
BANNON: OK, so what you've seen, he said hey, some of these don't look like they could have been natural evolutions, what say you?
HATFILL: OK, I'm going to address this one last time.
BANNON: OK, fine.
HATFILL: Viruses, a lot of viruses have what are called hyper variable regions. This helps the virus find a new host, it's a survival advantage.
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Everybody's looked at these sequences. If there was something definitely there, there'd be a rash of scientists speaking out about it. There's not a rash of scientists speaking out about it, there's a couple crackpot websites and people are grabbing this and running with it. People are getting scared, OK?
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You don't just come on radio and say, "Oh, I've looked at the sequencing, and I think, you know, this is engineered." What a load of crap.