A recently published paper about the possible zoonotic origin of SARS-CoV-2 has been given undiscerning coverage in the mainstream media, but 23 scientists have called for “an investigation of the paper for […]
A recently published paper about the possible zoonotic origin of SARS-CoV-2 has been given undiscerning coverage in the mainstream media, but 23 scientists have called for “an investigation of the paper for […]
A recently published paper, and its analysis by two German researchers, constitute a fresh challenge to claims that Covid-19 began in the Huanan seafood market in Wuhan. In their paper published in […]
The investigative research group ‘U.S. Right to Know’ (USRTK) has made public the full batch of documents it obtained about the EcoHealth Alliance’s ‘Defusing the Threat of Bat-borne Coronaviruses’ (DEFUSE) grant proposal […]
The US-based EcoHealth Alliance has dismissed allegations that the organisation misled the Pentagon about intended research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, but the new revelations add to the weight […]
US president Joe Biden has signed the COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023 into law. The Act requires the Director of National Intelligence to declassify information relating to the origin of Covid-19. The […]
This article has been updated with news of the US House of Representatives passing a Senate-approved bill that will require the Director of National Intelligence to declassify information relating to the origin […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The audio digest of ‘SARS-CoV-2: lab-origin hypothesis gains traction’ is now online:
This article has been updated. Latest update 29/3/2021 Audio digest (before updates): French translation (before updates) @ France Soir. Researchers say there’s evidence within the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein that suggests the virus […]