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Zoologist, disease ecologist
The Lancet first published a 27‑author statement on Feb 19, 2020, endorsing the view that SARS‑CoV‑2 most likely had a natural origin and “strongly condemn[ing] conspiracy theories” to the contrary, a...
Conflicts of interest and prior funding ties played a central, contested role in shaping the scientific community’s initial response to the lab‑leak hypothesis: early, authoritative statements that fr...
Dr. Anthony Fauci, as director of NIAID and a senior U.S. public health official during the Obama administration, did not personally visit the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2015 as some viral images ...
Congressional committees—principally the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic and the House Oversight Committee—have released a mix of subpoenaed internal emails (notably from longtim...
The February 19, 2020 Lancet letter that “strongly condemn[ed] conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID‑19 does not have a natural origin” is widely credited by reporters and some scientists with set...
Major origin probes have been dogged by documented conflict-of-interest concerns: high-profile scientists with ties to EcoHealth Alliance prompted the collapse or reshuffle of at least one internation...
Early, high-profile statements in leading journals asserting confidence in a natural origin for SARS‑CoV‑2 were later scrutinized for undisclosed ties—most prominently Peter Daszak’s collaborations wi...
U.S.-based scientists led by Ralph Baric collaborated with Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers including Shi Zhengli on published coronavirus experiments before the COVID-19 pandemic, and U.S. fed...