This article has been updated with details of two new preprints, one of which states that an endonuclease fingerprint indicates a synthetic origin of SARS-CoV-2, and information about a new report in which Republicans […]
Investigators challenge claims that Covid-19 began in the Huanan seafood market
Global Witness report: more than 1,700 environmental defenders murdered in 10 years
More than 1,700 land and environmental defenders have been killed over the past ten years, according to a new report, ‘Decade of Defiance’, published by the London-based non-governmental organisation Global Witness. Two […]
SARS-CoV-2: new report calls for further investigation of the lab-origin hypothesis
The Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO) has submitted its first preliminary report to the World Health Organisation (WHO) and has called for further investigation of the hypothesis […]
Jaipur Literature Festival goes hybrid with a multitude of online and on-ground sessions
Conversations from JLF 2022 The 15th edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival was a hybrid event, with an online programme running from March 5 to 14 and an on-ground event for five […]
MH370: eight years on from the plane’s disappearance, Ocean Infinity commits to new search
This article was updated on April 24 and on June 20, with additional updates on June 22 and September 16. It’s been eight years since Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared with 239 […]
SARS-CoV-2: US congressmen call for Fauci to be questioned about lab-origin hypothesis
This article has been updated. Latest update 7/2/2022. There has been a new call for the director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Anthony Fauci, to be […]
Scientists call for Peter Daszak to be removed as president of the EcoHealth Alliance
This article has been updated. Latest update: 2/12/2021 An international group of ten scientists and health experts has called on the board of the US-based EcoHealth Alliance (EHA) to remove Peter Daszak […]
DRASTIC investigating team releases leaked documents about gain-of-function coronavirus research
This article has been updated. Latest updates: 30/10/2021 (new document obtained from the National Institutes of Health) and 3/11/2021. A team of scientists and other independent researchers has released leaked documents that […]
Global Witness report: more than 200 environmental defenders murdered in 2020
At least 227 land and environmental defenders were murdered in 2020, according to a new report, ‘Last Line of Defence’, produced by the London-based non-governmental organisation Global Witness. This is the highest […]
US intelligence community says SARS-CoV-2 was not developed as a biological weapon
This report has been updated with information about the members of the WHO’s new Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO) and a link to the full declassified assessment […]
Climate change is ‘widespread, rapid, and intensifying’, says new report.
Climate change is widespread, rapid, and intensifying, according to a major new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean […]
Nóra Quoirin: judge in Malaysia overturns coroner’s verdict
This article is an expanded version of my piece in The Irish Times. UPDATE: Nóra Quoirin’s parents have reached a settlement in the legal actions they brought against Facebook and retired Irish […]
Researchers predict a massive decline in the ranges of Africa’s great apes in the next 30 years
An international team of researchers are predicting a massive decline in the ranges of Africa’s great apes by 2050 because of the impacts of climate change, land-use changes, and human population growth. […]
Covid-19: pressure mounts for a full, independent investigation into the origin of SARS-CoV-2
This article has been updated. Latest update: 13/8/2021. Pressure is mounting for a full, independent investigation into the origin of SARS-CoV-2. That pressure is coming from scientists around the world and individual […]
SARS-CoV-2: WHO-China report dismisses lab-origin hypothesis as being ‘extremely unlikely’
This article has been updated. Latest update: 5/6/2021. The report of the ‘Joint WHO-China Study’ of the possible origins of SARS-CoV-2 holds no surprises. Its main messages – that a lab origin […]
MH370: seven years on, next of kin call for the search to resume
It’s been seven years since Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared with 239 people on board and the next of kin say they are no closer to knowing what happened to the plane […]
Jaipur Literature Festival engages online audiences with a stellar line-up of speakers from around the world
Conversations from JLF 2021 This year’s virtual Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) had none of the vibrant hustle and bustle of the previous on-site editions, but, over ten days, there were more than 130 […]
Freedom in the forest: ten Bornean orangutans are released into the wild
The Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOSF) has released ten rehabilitated orangutans into the wild. They are the first releases the BOSF has been able to carry out since the Covid-19 pandemic began. […]
Digital Diggi: Jaipur festival transforms into a virtual extravaganza of literature, performance, and debate
The on-site Jaipur Literature Festival had to be cancelled this year because of Covid-19, but the 14th JLF is going ahead online from today (Friday) until February 28, with a stellar virtual […]
Covid-19: with billions vaccinated, adverse effects and virus variants cause concern
This article has been updated. Latest update 9/7/2024. I started writing this tome in February 2021. I regularly updated the statistics from the adverse event databases and certain other sections, including the […]
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