Bat Woman Leaves Wuhan, Moves To New Facility With Ties to Long Island Lab

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, which receives federal funding, has initiated a new collaboration with Shi Zhengli. The ties came to light after a scientist was banned from attending a conference.

Shi Zhengli, the ignominious bat woman has left the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and taken up a position at the Guangzhou Laboratory. The exact timing and circumstances of the switch remain unclear. As recently as June, Shi's professional résumé still listed her as the director of the WIV.

The change became apparent in recent days when the federally funded Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, located in Long Island, banned a prominent Japanese scientist from attending an academic conference where Shi is scheduled to speak.

Shi's résumé now lists her as a senior scientist at the Guangzhou Laboratory, a laboratory located in the Guangzhou International Bio Island, with which Cold Spring Harbor has a joint venture. 

Shi’s sudden move to a new lab is notable as she was widely known as the infamous bat woman of Wuhan. Having spent decades at the WIV, she had been at the forefront of reckless experiments focused on manipulating SARS viruses to increase their transmissibility in humans.

When the Covid pandemic began, Shi denied that her experiments had caused the outbreak. However, she later acknowledged that these experiments were conducted under low biosafety level conditions, from which any airborne virus, such as Covid, could have easily escaped. In 2021, it was revealed that Shi was a primary author of the 2018 DEFUSE blueprint for engineering viruses with a striking resemblance to Covid in a laboratory setting. These experiments were intended to be conducted at the WIV. Notably, the WIV mysteriously deleted its virus database on September 12, 2019, a date that coincides perfectly with the period when Covid is believed to have initially leaked. 

By relocating to a new laboratory, Shi has regained eligibility for U.S. government funding, which was previously revoked after it was revealed that Shi and EcoHealth, the organization through which Anthony Fauci had funneled federal grant money to the WIV, failed to provide data related to U.S. government-funded projects. Another worrying aspect of Shi’s relocation is the possibility that reckless gain-of-function experiments will once more be outsourced to China, as Fauci did after President Obama’s gain-of-function moratorium. The potential connection between Cold Spring Harbor’s various projects in China and the Chinese military is equally troubling.

Shi's affiliation change became publicly known in the past few days when the speakers list for a Cold Spring Harbor conference unexpectedly identified her as being associated with the Guangzhou lab. The list had previously stated that Shi was affiliated with the WIV. 

The reason this small change—albeit one with significant implications—was noticed by Twitter users is that the Cold Spring Harbor conference, where Shi is scheduled to speak, barred a distinguished Japanese scientist from attending. Dr Hideki Kakeya had applied to attend the conference and paid the required fee, only to be told by Cold Spring Harbor that “the organizing committee has reached a unanimous decision to formally reject your application and registration. The decision is final and without recourse.” (figure 1)

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While it is not unusual for conference organizers to deny speaking slots to potential speakers, it is entirely unheard of in academia for participation as a listener to be prohibited.

Cold Spring Harbor did not provide a reason for banning Dr Kakeya from attending its conference. However, it is likely that the ban is connected to Dr Kakeya’s view that Covid likely does not have a natural origin.

Cold Spring Harbor receives federal funding, including a recent grant of $2 million arranged by Senator Chuck Schumer. The institution also secures millions of dollars in federal grants allocated to its staff. Additionally, Cold Spring Harbor collects donations from organizations such as the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the Mercer Family Foundation, as well as from David Boies, the founder of Boies Schiller Flexner, the law firm that employed Hunter Biden.

It is unlikely that donors are aware of the recent reprehensible actions taken by Cold Spring Harbor. However, it would have been known to donors that Cold Spring Harbor and its president, Bruce Stillman, maintain very close ties to the Chinese regime.