Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the NIH, examines the possibility that Covid-19 escaped a lab in Wuhan, China. #Colbert #NIH #DrFrancisCollins
Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the NIH, examines the possibility that Covid-19 escaped a lab in Wuhan, China. #Colbert #NIH #DrFrancisCollins
And you won’t. Not unless you find a “smoking gun” bat with a 100% sequence match to the original strain (which could be planted evidence at this point) OR until an incredibly brave whistleblower from Wuhan steps forward (assuming potential whistleblowers are still alive to blow the whistle).
ReplyWow. I actually recognized Jane in that pic before he said who it was… I’m oddly proud of myself.
ReplyNow they can’t cover it up.
ReplyHow many lives could have been saved if the first mask presented to Trump was made from the crotch of his daughter Ivanka’s panties?
Replyif the country would finally get to be more like North Korea and force everyone to conform and comply . we’d all be better off . hopefully soon
ReplyThat photo will later be used as evidence that they were secretly working on a gorilla virus to Send back to china
ReplyThe sick researchers were tested back in Feb and found to have NO Covid-19 antibodies.
ReplyWhat Dr. Collins needs is to get a pair of snazzy mittens.
ReplyI could understand my not wanting my neighbors coming around and asking personal questions about my toilets. But if my plumbing was backing up and flooding the entire streets yards I’d feel obliged to cooperate with their investigation.
Reply‘I don’t THINK we can rule it out.’
ReplyThis is what we call an OPINION, students.
This kind of blah blah, hah hah, is causing racist idiots to commit violent acts against innocent Asian Americans. Like the doctor said, the facts aren’t nearly all in yet. And, again, in his opinion, it’s not very likely Covid-19 was created in a lab.
Pls have his band as guests and jam with you all. That would be awesome!
ReplyNo, there are many thing you can’t rule out, but focusing on this shit while we are fighting a pandemic is a distruction.
ReplyRemember when all the media rabidly went after anyone who even suggested the lab leak theory? The jury’s still out on how the first COVID-19 cases in the world started in Wuhan but it’s kind of bullshit how now the lab theory is suddenly okay to suggest when previously mentioning it made you a monster.
ReplyYa know what would be hot? Tieing the funding to Faucii and Gates for once and for all. But then… you would have to admit that ALL the facts were twisted for profit and to usher in agenda 21…. I bet Stephen cant wait to own nothing, and be happy too!
ReplyAll hail Klaus Schwab, right stephen?
From what I understand there are no obvious signs that covid19 was lab made or enhanced, or that covid19 was deliberately unleashed.
When you have had an ENTIRE major political party (the Trump-Republicans) obsessed with the conspiracy theory that it did come out of a lab or was deliberately unleashed… it is very reckless to say “I don’t think we can rule it out” based on virtually nothing. I get that maybe he wasn’t being very cautious or very careful with his word choice in light of this conspiracy theory and the anti-asian sentiment it has worsened… BUT SHAME on the Late Show YouTube people for putting that as the tag line.
Reply“It was such a strange… virus… ” uh huh…. “they are related… don’t look like the obvious ancestor.. we haven’t found the missing link..”…. uh huh…
ReplyJudge not, yeast you be judged. – The Lard Cheesus Crust
ReplyIt’s so funny how they completely changed the subject. But at least they’re talking about the lab leak *hypothesis* on mainstream shows now.
Replyenjoy this show
ReplyOh look another right wing conspiracy theorist
ReplyThe irony of the “This definitely came from a lab in China” theory is that since China has come out of this crisis stronger than before, if the conspiracy theorists are correct, China has only a few reasons not to do it again. Cause they can count on the same conspiracy theorists to make it far worse in America than it ever will be in their own country. I guess that’s the problem with having conspiracy theorists in the government.
Replybut Stephen why are you hosting ideas about these Conspiracy Theories on your show??
ReplyNot blindly dismissing them and RIDICULING anyone who even BRINGS THIS UP any longer??
Where are the jokes now you Hollywood shill?
Pathetic.
Framed picture, upper right hand corner… Stephen Colbert with Francis Collins? Maybe they are friends and what we have is a very sympathetic conflict of interest situation… 🙂
ReplyWhy bother talking about any hypothesis unless you can explain how it is testable? Can this conspiracy theory be proved or disproved? If so, tell us how. If not, just shut up.
ReplyFunny how established science told us it was DEFINITELY a naturally occurring virus, and now they’re not sure if it ACCIDENTALLY escaped a lab… Funny…
ReplyGreat human Dr. Collins, I love him.
ReplyChinese government puts a million of innocent people in concentration camps where they are routinely subject to torture and rape. So if China is responsible for global pandemic they will never admit it. Those idiotic scientist who let the virus out are probably long “disappeared” by the government. That’s what totalitarian government do. They lie and kill just to keep their hold of power.
ReplyRemember a year ago yall were saying that its a crazy conspiracy and even mentioning it is racist
ReplyOk steven, so when fox was saying this you bashed them, mocked them, and ragged on them nonstop… Now your giving full fledged credence to the idea and giving this guy on air time to talk about it. Can you stop being the fucking hypocrites that fox has turned into? I normally enjoy your show but at this point you’re just feeding into the division and B.S.
ReplyI look forward to the days in this country when we admire Faucis more than we admire Jenners/Kardashians and other degenerate “celebs”….
ReplyGreat guy.
ReplyGod doesn’t design in the labs. People do. Unless he implies I am a God in my lab.
ReplyWait what happened to it being a conspiracy theory
ReplyThe corona strains have been researched for decades. There is nothing “novel” about COVID19. There are patent requests dating all the way back to 1999 by our own CDC for man-made mutations of corona viruses. If you want a taste for Dr. Faucci, just watch him get grilled in the senate public health hearings where he fails to answer any questions with any competence.
ReplyHe led the Human Genome Project? Wow! This means he is actually in the run for the Nobel Prize.
ReplyI’m sure he doesn’t mind being so lesser known to the point of not having to have body guards because of death threats from idiots.
ReplyColbert is such a tool. He became the freaky liberal version of the Colbert Report.
ReplyThe evidence showed the virus was naturally mutated not deliberately engineered. But people described that as “not from a lab” which is a bad shift of meaning. Natural selection doesn’t stop happening just because you’re standing in a lab building at the time. Viruses don’t stop mutating just because you’re indoors. “Natural accident” does not rule out “in a building at the time” because nature does not care about the difference between indoors and outdoors.
Replyhe led the human genome project?? holy fuck
ReplyThe lab in Wuhan had multiple violations for failure to comply with safety regulations, and it required France intervening to keep the lab operating.
ReplyRemember when we had a Covid Response Team in Wuhan? Remember when the Orange Moron dismantled it? Why is it never mentioned?
ReplyMaybe, maybe, but BS.
ReplyWhy were scientist going deep into caves in southern China to get bats. Spells man made virus.
Why investigate so soon just wait a decade or two?
ReplyI thought this was accepted fact?
ReplyI don’t get this obsession with the origin. China won’t allow a proper investigation and probably already buried whatever evidence of it’s origin existed.
ReplyWe really lucked out with both Dr. Collins and Dr. Fauci leading the team that is handling the pandemic crisis. I remember watching Dr. Fauci at the few “news” conferences on TV in which he “face palmed” his face and how unhappy he looked being forced to stand behind a complete moron and his henchmen. You can certainly see the difference between then and now when both drs are on TV. Much happier guys!!!
ReplyI’m liking the video because of Colbert, not the idiot being interviewed. Just to clarify.
ReplyChina nuked us all
ReplyNone of this supposed new information is new. Not the sick lab workers, not the
Replycell shut down, not the lab silence. All of it was known a year ago, and
reported by conservative news outlets. It was labeled wild conspiracy
theories. There was never an “actual” investigation by the who because
they did not need to. They already knew the source. Instead of
investigating, the who ran interference and diversions for the Chinese.
Telling the world there was no evidence of human to human transfer when
at the time they knew there was massive evidence of human to human
transfer. Their statement was AFTER China stopped all domestic flights
out of Wuhan, but allowed international flights to continue, in an
effort to seed the virus world wide. Based an the evidence, none of this
is even debatable. The big question is, what is the world going to do
about it. Cower, or stand up?
I’m old enough to remember this being another “Conspiracy theory” by the left.
ReplyMost people don’t really get it; The Human Genome Project was the largest scientific study ever done, & the most globally cooperative action ever taken, w/over 40 nations participating. It also changed the world as we know it, helping us cure disease, & tho rarely talked about; it proved without doubt, that all of humanity emerged from NE Africa, & from one of two male/female ancestors. We are ONE PEOPLE.
ReplyCollins loses my respect as a scientist when he claims to be an evangelical Christain, what a joke
ReplyThere’s a China-critical Vlogger, laowhy86 who made a video over a year ago where he went through what was happening on the Chinese Netosphere. Despite best efforts at censorship by the Chinese government it remained glaringly obvious that this pandemic obviously came from that Wuhan lab.
The video was called “I found the source of Coronavirus” for anyone who wants to check it out.
ReplyIt’s a joke that large news media are only now starting to report on this.
I don’t expect people to just believe random vlogs but this was well souced and would’ve been so easy to verify for any news outlet with a Chinese speaker on staff.
This was a ready-to-go scoop just waiting for someone to pick it up.
YEAH!!…DR. COLLINS RIDE FREE BROTHER!!
ReplyI love how Colbert finds and has on his show, smart, intelligent and kind guests.
Replywhat do we call it when we decry racist conspiracy theories when they come from political opponents, but then bring them back with absolutely no new evidence when our preferred political party comes back into power? I’m not entirely sure, but i know we won’t call it really is, cynical neoliberal jingoism.
Reply“Hunky science doctors” are a thing I didn’t know I needed more of until right this instant. xD
ReplyI think if man were going to make a deliberate virus it would be a lot stronger than this one.
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