Congressional Memo: Virologists Drafted Article Against the Lab Leak Theory on Behalf of Wellcome Trust, NIH
Emily Kopp Virologists who worked to squelch consideration of a lab origin of COVID-19 in early 2020 worked in tandem with leaders in scientific research funding, according to their private emails. … A March 2020 paper in Nature Medicine titled “The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2” assured the public that the virus’ genome demonstrated an origin […]
Did ‘Catastrophic Accident’ Start COVID-19?
Joseph Mercola According to a “senior European politician,” World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus con ded to him in private that he believes COVID-19 was the result of a catastrophic accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China. In late 2020, the WHO established a scientific advisory group to investigate the origin […]
What Happened to the Lab-leak Hypothesis?
Matt Ridley, Alina Chan Eschewing speculation and sticking to what we could prove, we delved deep into the evidence and wove together the threads that linked bat viruses from southern China or Southeast Asia with an outbreak in Wuhan in late 2019. We concluded that it was impossible to be sure yet, but two theories […]
The “Lab-Leak Theory” Returns … As Yet Another Fake Binary
Kit Knightly … The “Lab-leak theory” – which pushes the idea Sars-Cov-2 was bio-engineered in a lab as a “gain-of-function” program, and then either accidentally or deliberately released on an unsuspecting population – first came to the front pages as early as January 2020. At the time it was deemed a “racist” “anti-china” conspiracy theory” […]
The Nine Great Covid Mysteries
Swiss Policy Research From virus origins to the Nordic paradox: the nine great covid mysteries.
Thunder Out of China
Yuri Deigin The current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has been, and continues to be, a public health catastrophe—the most serious in a century. Questions about the origins of COVID-19 are, at once, matters of legal, financial, and moral concern. For the moment, researchers can do no better than to hope for an inference to the best explanation; […]
A Call for an Independent Inquiry into the Origin of the SARS-CoV-2 Virus
Neil L. Harrison, Jeffrey D. Sachs Since the identification of theSARS-CoV-2 in Wuhan, China, in January 2020, the origin of the virus has been a topic of intense scientific debate and public speculation. The two main hypotheses are that the virus emerged from human exposure to an infected animal [“zoonosis”] or that it emerged in […]
