Ronald W. Dworkin wants you to know that I’m “kind of nutty” and my recently released, top-selling book, Biohacked: China’s Race to Control Life is “too hyperbolic to be taken seriously.”

I’ll also take a few moments to clear up some confusion that Dworkin had about the book itself. There were some claims that Dworkin says that I made in Biohacked that I did not. Whether it be his take on the COVID-19 outbreak aboard the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt or his misstatements about my claims on China’s cloning program, let us just stipulate that these are sadly egregious misrepresentations of my work.

Clearing the Air

Dr. Dworkin asserts that I raise the possibility of “China cloning millions of soldiers with special abilities to defeat our enemies.” It might be a simple misreading on his part. Although, given Dr. Dworkin’s belief that I’m some kind of practitioner of the dark arts of deception, I suspect it is Dworkin’s attempt to undermine my credibility.

I never said what he claims I did in the book.

What I did say was that China plans on using the US-built CRISPR-Cas-9 gene editing tool to insert desirable traits into its soldiers as part of a larger gene-doping program. I then quote several reports from the US intelligence community and even a Wall Street Journal op-ed that the Trump Administration’s Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe released to the public in 2019 outlining their official concerns about China’s biotech threat.

At another point in the book, I raised concerns that Chinese companies, like Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) and Sinogene, were using biotechnology to clone human organs with the stated intention of ultimately cloning human beings for medical research purposes by 2049.

These claims, like all my claims in Biohacked are thoroughly cited. At no point, however, did I say we were going to have the Clone Wars a lá Star Wars happening anytime soon.

In fact, the detractors of Biohacked (as with critics of my first book, Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower) have not attacked the book for being poorly researched. It is, like everything I do, a zealously researched piece of writing. Nor can these writers apparently critique the science found in the book. Rather, they tend to mock my writing or attack me personally merely because they disagree with what I say.

An Airing of Grievances

Dworkin’s writing exhibits a degree of ennui about Biohacked that is profoundly unhelpful for the reader who is probably trying to decide if they should spend the money and take the time to read my book.

Throughout the critique, there is a repetitive theme that not only is Biohacked an unserious work, but I am a dishonest actor. Taking aim at what is admittedly the most controversial chapter in my book, “Biological 9/11,” in which I outline a possible alternative explanation for the COVID-19 pandemic’s origins, Dworkin is skeptical of the truthfulness of my writing. He then cuts deeper at my character by stating, “For Weichert’s purposes, perhaps it doesn’t matter.”

The scenario I walk the reader through in the book’s ninth chapter is that, far from being an accident, the pandemic was an attack on the United States by the Chinese military. In that section of the book, I lay out in vivid detail the argument. Yet, before entering that section of the book, I clearly inform the reader that the section in question is speculative. I write specifically, “If you’ll allow me, I’d like to spend the next few pages conjecturing.”

Dworkin nevertheless accuses me of writing something that, “smacks of false advertising.”

Dworkin’s insistence that I was lying to generate an emotional reaction from my readers is negated by the fact that I had just indicated that the part of the book he takes particular umbrage with was, in fact, speculation (although, I do lean toward this possibility as the likely explanation of events). I’d have been a dishonest actor here if I had simply dove into the speculative part of the chapter without having indicated that I was engaged in conjecture.

The anesthesiologist-turned-political-scientist then crafts a, frankly, bizarre conspiracy of his own about yours truly. “Whether they will it or not, Weichert’s readers will be inclined to start thinking and calculating in a new dimension.” Apparently, I have the ability to “open a new dimension [about the] possibility that China has already attacked America, but before the brain even has time to digest the claim and consider the veracity of his charge, the readers’ emotions have already suffered metamorphosis, leaving the spirit anxious and hostile.”

On second reading of that, I don’t know if I should be insulted that he thinks I’m some kind of masterclass propagandist out to trick the reader into agreeing with me. Or if I should be somewhat flattered that such a well-educated person believes that I could have the power to open new dimensions and convince millions of readers to agree with me just based on the potency of my writing.

I make it abundantly clear, based on volumes of academic citations, as well as my contacts in the national security community, that I do not believe COVID-19 was a naturally forming phenomenon. Insofar as I have an agenda it is to warn the reader about China’s growing threat and to the fact that they have likely already escalated their war against us with a covert biological weapons attack. I outline why and I provide the data. More importantly, I explicitly tell the readers that at the outset of the work.

That’s far from dishonest.

I Just Want Answers

If you read my book, what you’ll find is that I’m the honest actor in this affair and powerful elements of our government, our business community, our scientific elite, and China’s regime are the dishonest players here. In fact, as I state in an early chapter of Biohacked, “the world is still not fully aware of the true origins of the COVID-19 pathogen.” My purpose in writing the controversial, though popular book was to provide clarity and understanding on what is likely the most significant historical event yet of the turbulent twenty-first century.

For years, information pertaining to the origins of the novel coronavirus was covered up, not just by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which had obvious reasons for doing so, but by Western corporations and the US government itself.

After inexcusable delays, the Biden Administration finally released its official report on the origins of COVID-19. Unsurprisingly, the report acknowledges that it does “not address the merits of the two most likely pandemic origins hypotheses.” So, it’s entirely useless. And the report was likely designed to be that way by those who stand the most to lose from publicly acknowledging that China probably attacked us with COVID-19 three years ago.

In Biohacked, though, I reveal evidence from the 2022 investigation into COVID-19’s origins that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) conducted. Headed by US Army Major Joseph Murphy, DARPA’s inquiry “objectively analyzed activities planned (and performed) by the Wuhan Institute of Virology in conjunction with various collateral information [and concluded] that the initial virus generating the pandemic was created at the WIV.”

Given that the institutions and individuals we depend on for answering these important questions have so clearly dropped the ball, it becomes imperative for all truth-seeking investigators, such as this author, to seek out the facts and report them to the world.

China’s War Plan Against America and its Biotech Threat

Apparently, not everything I wrote upset Dworkin. He does credit me with having done some “serious investigative journalism” (thanks?). What he fails to acknowledge, though, is that the investigative journalism that he believes to be sound undergirds the conclusions that I make both about the origins of COVID-19 as well as the wider intent of the Chinese communist regime. Namely, that the CCP has been at war with the United States for decades. Their conflict against us is escalating. What’s more, they are absorbing our high-technology—specifically biotechnology—capabilities and folding it into their growing, sophisticated bioweapons program which is designed specifically to be deployed against Americans.

That’s a frightening notion if you ask me. My goal was not to frighten for the sake of fear or for my own enjoyment—as Dworkin insinuated repeatedly. My purpose is to give the reader a clear-eyed understanding of a threat, the Chinese Communist Party, that has been poorly understood for many decades. And, yes, the CCP’s comprehensive threat to the United States should raise fear in you. To pretend otherwise is either ignorant or foolish.