The monthly magazines' WiLL and Hanada, which are now on sale, are filled with genuine articles and editorials. And yet, the price is only 950 yen (including consumption tax).
A friend of mine who is an avid reader is fond of saying that "nothing is as cheap as a book," and both magazines demonstrate that this is true.
Every Japanese citizen should go to the nearest bookstore right now to subscribe.
The genuine editorials and articles in both journals are a must-read for the Japanese and people worldwide.
I have tried to make them known as much as possible to the people of the world.
Japan is a country where the turntable of civilization is turning and where, along with the United States, it must lead the world for another 170 years.
It is only natural that the world's best papers are being published day and night in Japan.
Until July 2010, when this column appeared, it had not disseminated these papers to the world at all.
It is what has made today's world unstable and extremely dangerous.
In this chapter, I would like to introduce an article by Hideki Kakeya, Associate Professor of Systems Information Systems at the University of Tsukuba, which appears in WiLL.
He is a real scholar who is entirely unknown to people who do not subscribe to the above monthly magazine or who subscribe to Asahi Shimbun and watch only T.V. news programs.
It is no exaggeration to say that they and the rest of the world like them have never read a genuine paper like his.
Don't Let Up on the Pursuit of China
by Hideki Kakeya.
Scientists who remain silent on contradictory Chinese claims are corrupt in their sense of ethics.
Weak evidence
On March 30, the WHO's international research team, which conducted a field survey on the origin of the new coronavirus (SARS-COV-2), released its report.
The report lists four possible origins.
1) Direct infection from animals in nature to humans.
2) Infection from animals in nature to humans via intermediate hosts.
3) Infection via frozen food.
3) Infection via frozen food 4) Infection via accidental leakage from laboratories
The WHO report concludes that (2) is the most likely, followed by (1), (3) in that order, and that (4) is extremely unlikely.
However, in the 120-page report, there is only about one page of analysis on the possibility of (1).
The scientific evidence for the low likelihood of (4) is also feeble.
Specifically, there is no record that the Wuhan Institute of Vessels held a sample of new coronavirus or a new coronavirus if recombined before October 2019, and the research institute has BSL (Biosafety Level). )
The reason is that the facility has a high level of security measures of 3 or 4, and there are no reports of infection to the institute's staff.
There are strong counter-arguments to all of these points.
First, the Wuhan Institute for Virus Research database, which used to be accessible from the outside, has been blocked and is now unviewable.
Since it is hidden, it is only natural that it cannot find the records.
However, there is no evidence that the WHO team searched for the hidden records.
Secondly, it is also a lie that the BSL3 or BSL34 laboratories are safe.
U.S. diplomatic sources who visited the Wuhan virus laboratory reported sloppy management.
There have been several incidents of leaks of dangerous microorganisms from other high BSL facilities in the past.
The theory that there are no leaks because the BSL is high lacks validity.
Finally, as for the infection of the Wuhan laboratory staff, the U.S. State Department has taken the opposite view here.
In January 2021, then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in the fall of 2019, "There is good reason to believe that researchers at the institute have had symptoms that are very similar to those of the new coronavirus infection and other seasonal illnesses." It has said.
(However, the U.S. has not released any concrete evidence. Since neither the U.S. nor China has disclosed any evidence on this point, it becomes a political question of which side to believe and cannot be evaluated from a scientific perspective).
The WHO investigation report denies a leak from the laboratory on flimsy grounds.
On the other hand, although there is no convincing evidence regarding the possibility of different theories, the chance is higher than the leakage from the laboratory.
In the first place, the theory of infection by frozen food was suddenly invented by the Chinese government to blame other countries.
After the new coronavirus caused a global pandemic, it is not surprising that infected workers introduced the virus in foreign factories.
However, if the initial origin were frozen food, many infected people would have been found first in the countries where the factories are located. it exported
Furthermore, it is unlikely that it exported frozen foods only to Wuhan, which is inconsistent because the first large-scale infection occurred only in Wuhan.
In the case of infection from natural animals, the habitat of bats, which are hosts of viruses similar to the new coronavirus, is a cave in Yunnan province, 1,700 kilometers away from Wuhan.
No reason has been found to explain why it first made the outbreak only in the distant Wuhan.
In past cases of SARS and MERS, which are similar to the new coronavirus, it found the source animals within a few months of the start of the epidemic.
Nearly one and a half years have passed since the infection was discovered, and the fact that no source of infection has been found by examining more than 80,000 animal specimens must be said to be abnormal compared to past cases.
This article continues.
