Switzerland asks Chinese media to delete quotes from 'fake' Swiss scientist about COVID-19 origins

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The World Health Organization has yet to identify the origin of the coronavirus with some claiming it leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. (
AP: Ng Han Gua




Several Chinese newspaper websites have removed comments about the coronavirus pandemic that were "wrongly presented" as coming from a Swiss biologist who does not appear to exist, according to Switzerland's foreign ministry.

Key points:

• The Swiss Embassy in Beijing highlighted its suspicions about the scientist with a Twitter post
• The embassy said no Swiss citizen named Wilson Edwards appeared on registries or academic articles from the biology field
• The post asked that Chinese media remove the stories and publish corrections

The press and social media comments attributed to a biologist identified as Wilson Edwards took aim at alleged US pressure on researchers amid the pandemic.

Chinese authorities and state media outlets have led an aggressive pushback against criticism of China's handling of the COVID-19 outbreak.

The Swiss Embassy in Beijing highlighted its suspicions about the quoted scientist on Tuesday with a Twitter post: "Looking for Wilson Edwards, alleged [Swiss] biologist, cited in press and social media in China over the last several days."

"If you exist, we would like to meet you!" the embassy tweeted.

Looking for Wilson Edwards, alleged biologist, cited in press and social media in China over the last several days. If you exist, we would like to meet you! But it is more likely that this is a fake news, and we call on the Chinese press and netizens to take down the posts. pic.twitter.com/U6ku5EGibm
— Embassy of Switzerland in Beijing (@SwissEmbChina) August 10, 2021

A statement attached to the post, written in English and Chinese, said no Swiss citizen named Wilson Edwards appeared on registries or academic articles from the biology field.

It said the Facebook account where comments attributed to Wilson were published was opened on July 24.

The embassy said that while it appreciated Switzerland receiving attention, it "must unfortunately inform the Chinese public that this news is false".

"While we assume that the spreading of this story was done in good faith by the media and netizens, we kindly ask that anyone having published this story take it down and publish a corrigendum," the embassy post said.

Pierre-Alain Eltschinger, a spokesman for the Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs, said the comments were "wrongly presented as coming from a Swiss biologist".

"Several Chinese newspapers have since pulled down those comments," he said in an email, without specifying.

An authenticated Facebook account of China's People's Daily newspaper still had an English language reference to an article from CGTN, the international arm of the Chinese state broadcaster, quoting Wilson.

Chinese authorities have been doing mass coronavirus testing in Wuhan this month after an unusually wide series of COVID-19 outbreaks reached the city.(
Xinhua via AP: Wang Guansen
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In the CGTN article, Wilson was quoted as saying he and fellow researchers had faced pressure and intimidation from the US and some media outlets for supporting conclusions in a joint study by China and the Geneva-based World Health Organization on the origins of COVID- 19.

The study, released publicly in March, presented several hypotheses about how the pandemic started but no firm conclusions.

Switzerland asks Chinese media to delete quotes from 'fake' Swiss scientist

Several Chinese media websites remove comments about the coronavirus pandemic that were "wrongly presented" as coming from a Swiss biologist who, according to Switzerland's foreign ministry, does not appear to exist.

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[Dark1]

Fake western scientist created by the Chinese ?
Not a surprise for anyone here.

 

[redtom]

We think Switzerland needs to get China to investigate whether this professor exists. We highly suspect that the professor's existence has been erased, that the Swiss government has destroyed the evidence. We call on the Swiss government to be open and transparent about the investigation.

 

[Globenim]

Poor professor has been dissappeard into an American concentration camp for speaking out the truth

Hillarious how much paid shills keep trying to point fingers at China over an American social media account being mentioned in some Chinese media that could as well been just been US shill bait, while the US regimes propaganda mouthpieces deliberately invent thousands of Chinese rioters and dissidents out of thin air and make thousands of reports citing American agents posing behind fake Chinese personas on American social media and parrot fake leaks and fake reports about China spammed on American social media up an down every day

 

[Dark1]

Typical Chinese.
These guys put a dog in a lion's cage to fool their zoo going population. Nothing is beyond them.
No concept of right or wrong.

China 'dog-lion': Henan zoo mastiff poses as Africa cat

An animal described as an African lion at a zoo in the Chinese province of Henan is exposed as a fraud - after the creature started barking in front of visitors.

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An animal described as an African lion at a Chinese zoo was exposed as a fraud - when the creature started barking in front of visitors.
Chinese media reports said the zoo had replaced its genuine lion with a Tibetan mastiff dog.
A zoo official in Henan province said the dog - owned by one of the workers - was put in the cage when the real lion was sent away to a breeding centre.
Outraged visitors to the zoo in Louhe city said they had been cheated."

 

[redtom]

Typical Chinese.
These guys put a dog in a lion's cage to fool their zoo going population. Nothing is beyond them.
No concept of right or wrong.

China 'dog-lion': Henan zoo mastiff poses as Africa cat

An animal described as an African lion at a zoo in the Chinese province of Henan is exposed as a fraud - after the creature started barking in front of visitors.

www.google.com

An animal described as an African lion at a Chinese zoo was exposed as a fraud - when the creature started barking in front of visitors.
Chinese media reports said the zoo had replaced its genuine lion with a Tibetan mastiff dog.
A zoo official in Henan province said the dog - owned by one of the workers - was put in the cage when the real lion was sent away to a breeding centre.
Outraged visitors to the zoo in Louhe city said they had been cheated."

Typical Indian, is this a new form of fraud?

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[redtom]

Typical Chinese.
These guys put a dog in a lion's cage to fool their zoo going population. Nothing is beyond them.
No concept of right or wrong.

China 'dog-lion': Henan zoo mastiff poses as Africa cat

An animal described as an African lion at a zoo in the Chinese province of Henan is exposed as a fraud - after the creature started barking in front of visitors.

www.google.com

An animal described as an African lion at a Chinese zoo was exposed as a fraud - when the creature started barking in front of visitors.
Chinese media reports said the zoo had replaced its genuine lion with a Tibetan mastiff dog.
A zoo official in Henan province said the dog - owned by one of the workers - was put in the cage when the real lion was sent away to a breeding centre.
Outraged visitors to the zoo in Louhe city said they had been cheated."

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[52051]

Well, maybe next time we need to bring out some powder to make it the done deal.