Categories for Virus Origins
Why the Lab Leak Theory is Almost Certainly False
The case for a lab leak seems robust: the virus is plainly engineered and first emerged in a city with a major virus lab. But in fact the evidence the virus leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology just isn't there.
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U.S. Government Identified as Original Source of Lab Leak Theory. What’s Really Going On?
The first suggestion Covid came from a lab appeared in Radio Free Asia on Jan 9th 2020, even before the first death, when the CIA-linked outlet pushed the idea that Covid was a bioweapon. So what's really going on?
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Did SARS-CoV-2 Originate in Wuhan in 2019 or Earlier Elsewhere?
Antibodies in Italian blood samples from September 2019 – What is the evidence that SARS-CoV-2 originated earlier than December 2019 in Wuhan, and what are the implications for our understanding of the pandemic?
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WHO Chief Privately Believes Covid Did Leak From Wuhan Lab, In Spite of Dismissing Lab Leak Hyphothesis as a ‘Conspiracy Theory’
The head of the WHO privately believes Covid originated in a Wuhan lab, despite publicly dismissing the lab leak hypothesis as a 'conspiracy theory'.
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Another Scientist Who Publicly Dismissed Lab Leak Gave It Credence in Private Email
A new freedom of information request has revealed that *another* author of the infamous Lancet letter, which referred to "conspiracy theories" about Covid origins, gave the lab leak credence in a private email.
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Did Virus Hunters Cover Up a Lab Leak?
Why did the Global Virome Project, a well-funded public health initiative set up to investigate the origins of viruses in 2018, fail to investigate the outbreak of COVID-19? Matt Ridley and Presenjit Ray investigate.
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Lab Leak Hypothesis, Once Dismissed as ‘Conspiracy Theory’, Now Believed by Downing Street
12 months ago, anyone claiming SARS-CoV-2 had escaped from a lab in Wuham was dismissed as a "racist" and "conspiracy theorist". Now, it's the accepted view of 10 Downing Street.
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New Emails Reveal Scientists Stifled Lab Leak Discussion to Protect “Science in China”
New emails have revealed how top scientists sought to stifle discussion around the lab leak theory. The former head of the NIH asked what his organisation could do to "help put down" this "very destructive conspiracy".
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Did Omicron Come From a Lab?
Omicron is very different from the previous variants of concern, and a new study presents evidence that it evolved specifically in mice. Which raises an intriguing possibility: did Omicron leak from a lab?
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By Last Spring, “A Large Swath of the Government” Already Believed Lab Leak Theory, Says Reporter
After acquiring information about the WIV, Josh Rogin called around to get reactions from US officials. He discovered that “a large swath of the government already believed the virus had escaped from the WIV lab”.
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