Facebook has been accused by a Conservative MP of "showing its true and ugly colours" and smothering free speech to cosy up to China as it did a U-turn on its ban on posts debating whether Covid-19 could be man-made.
Last year, many journalists dismissed the Covid lab-leak theory as conspiratorial nonsense. But if we are to avoid another pandemic, we must take the theory more seriously and ensure it is investigated, says Matt Ridley.
I've written a piece for Mail+ today on why it was wrong for YouTube, Facebook and Twitter to remove content defending the lab leak theory and label it 'misinformation', given that it's now entered the mainstream.
Three researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology sought hospital care in November 2019 for possible COVID-19. But is that too late for a lab leak?
Please read this essay by a best-selling, prize-winning novelist about the price we'd be willing to pay if the lab leak theory turns out to be true. Will we let China off the hook? Or will there be a reckoning?
Scientists from around the world have criticised the World Health Organisation's investigation into the origins of Covid, saying that the agency has not properly looked into the lab leak theory.
Chinese scientists have been preparing for a Third World War fought with biological and genetic weapons including coronavirus for the last six years, according to a document obtained by US investigators.
In a new essay, the science writer Nicholas Wade argues that the lab leak theory provides a far better explanation of the available facts than the alternative, natural origin theory.
No sooner had the WHO yesterday published its report into the origins of the Wuhan coronavirus, the Director General was making a statement distancing the organisation from what observers called a "whitewash".
