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?
Instinctively, it feels as though 'experts' must be peddling untruths knowingly, out of a misguided sense of paternalistic responsibility. But more troubling is the possibility they have bought into their own fictions.
The head of the WHO privately believes Covid originated in a Wuhan lab, despite publicly dismissing the lab leak hypothesis as a 'conspiracy theory'.
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.
Professor Danny Altmann has admitted that the emergence of the highly immune-evasive Omicron variant came as a surprise to most experts in the field. Is that because it was made in a lab?
In a strange twist in the investigation into the origins of the virus, it has been discovered that a key genetic sequence in the virus was patented by Moderna in 2016, though for an unrelated purpose.
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".
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?
Viral, a new book by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley, describes the role that citizen journalists played in debunking the theory that it was a naturally occurring virus in bats that accidentally jumped to the human population.
The Lancet has published an article calling for an "objective, open and transparent debate" on Covid's origins – a whole 19 months after its pages "strongly condemned" the lab leak theory as a "conspiracy".
