Editor’s Note:

While more than 25 million Chinese netizens have signed to appeal for an investigation to the Fort Detrick biological laboratory in the US, some American media outlets have stood up to make charges that doubts to Fort Detrick on the origins of the COVID-19 are “conspiracy theories.”

However, the Global Times reporters have found a series of well-documented clues and facts from a large number of academic papers and public reports in the US media, which raise doubts about Fort Detrick.

Baric and his virus modification technique

Let’s start with Ralph Baric, an American scientist who is called the “Coronavirus Hunter.”

According to a report from the school-run media of the University of North Carolina, where Baric works, “Baric has been tracking coronaviruses for decades and working on medications to treat coronavirus-caused infections.”

More importantly, Baric has a technique called “reverse genetics” in coronaviruses, which could “bring an actual virus to life from its genetic code,” and “mix and match parts of multiple viruses.”