Has the lab leak been proven false? That's the impression you'd get from a BBC article yesterday. But the new studies mentioned in that article prove no such thing. One even admits there is "insufficient evidence".
Does the virus have a natural origin or did it leak from a lab? Will a new investigation settle the debate? Read our exclusive interview with Matt Ridley, co-author of 'Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19’.
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.
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".
A former director of the CDC has told CNN he believes SARS-CoV-2 escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. This used to be dismissed as a 'conspiracy theory', but no longer. It's the subject of Matt Ridley's next book.
