Column: Anatomy of a smear — Fauci faces the House GOP's clown show about COVID
Booster Shots - latimes.com,
The House GOP attacks Anthony Fauci, one of America's most accomplished public health officials, labeling him a 'criminal' and…
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The ultimate COVID-19 antivax conspiracy theory, courtesy of The Brownstone Institute and Jeffery Tucker
Science-Based Medicine,
I've long argued that antivax beliefs, indeed all science denial, is conspiracy theory. Leave it to The Brownstone Institute's…
Column: Two Rutgers professors are accused of poisoning the debate over COVID's origins. Here's why
Booster Shots - latimes.com,
Richard Ebright and Bryce Nickels of Rutgers have labeled leading virologists fraudsters, perjurers, felons and murderers. Is…
Negligence by experts in the early response to COVID-19
Journal of Medical Ethics blog,
By Hideki Kakeya. At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, public health authorities failed to convey correct information on the…
Fauci FINALLY coughs up to Covid failures: Admits lab leak is credible, reveals HE told schools to impose vaccine mandates and even praises Trump on China!
Whats New,
WhatsNew2Day - Latest News And Breaking…
Professors: Free Speech is not Essential to Higher Education
JONATHAN TURLEY,
In “The Indispensable Right,” I discuss how academics are now leading an anti-free speech movement on campuses that challenges…
[Eugene Volokh] "Journalists Should Be Skeptical of All Sources—Including Scientists"
The Volokh Conspiracy,
From Nate Silver: Here's the scandal. In March 2020, a group of scientists — in particular, Kristian G. Andersen the of The…
Who Ordered the Lab Leak Cover-Up?
Climate Science,
From The Daily…
Queen Covid proximally
Power LinePower Line,
(Scott Johnson) Matt Taibbi has posted his column “Covid’s Origins and the Death of Trust” in accessible form. It includes a…
Covid's Origins and the Death of Trust - by Matt Taibbi
The Right Coast,
Publichas just published the cache of communications of the scientists who penned the key article,The Proximal Origin of SARS…
Michael Hiltzik: GOP in Search of COVID Conspiracy Theory
Diane Ravitch's blog,
Michael Hiltzik, a regular columnist for the Los Angeles Times, is also a source of common sense and wisdom. In this column, he…
About Those Lab Leak Documents
NeuroLogica Blog,
It was recently revealed that the House subcommittee probing the origins of COVID-19 accidentally released a “trove” of…
Scientists, Under Fire From Republicans, Defend Fauci and Covid Origins Study
NYT > Politics,
Two virologists testified that they remained convinced that the coronavirus was natural in origin and said Dr. Anthony S. Fauci…
Anthony Fauci and Gain-of-Function Wargames
Counter Punch,
Anthony Fauci assumed the post of the U.S.A.’s voice of science during the early days of the pandemic. While Donald Trump…
Pentagon Debunked Fauci’s Anti-Lab-Leak ‘Proximal Origin’ Paper in May 2020, Leaked Document Reveals
Climate Science,
From The Daily…
Simon Schama: ‘Terrifying diseases coming at the world faster and faster . They are the direct result of what we have done to our planet’
Science news, comment and analysis | theguardian.com,
More than ever, the relationship between our two worlds has been disrupted, says the historian. If we don’t mend our ways, will…
Lab Leak or Not? How Politics Shaped the Battle Over Covid’s Origin
NYT > Politics,
A lab leak was once dismissed by many as a conspiracy theory. But the idea is gaining traction, even as evidence builds that…
Két amerikai titkosszolgálat is azt állítja, hogy laborból indult a covidjárvány, de a tudományos bizonyítékok az állati eredet mellett szólnak
Qubit,
Február végén a Wall Street Journal arról írt, hogy az amerikai Energiaügyi Minisztérium (Department of Energy, DOE) nemrégiben…
Hearing on Covid’s Origins Promises Politics Mixed With Substance
NYT > Politics,
In advance of a hearing on Wednesday expected to focus on the lab leak theory, House Republicans took aim at Dr. Anthony S.
Congressional memo: Virologists drafted article against the lab leak theory on behalf of Wellcome Trust, NIH - U.S. Right to Know
The Right Coast,
Virologists who worked to squelch consideration of a lab origin of COVID-19 in early 2020 worked in tandem with leaders in…
WHO “deeply frustrated” by lack of US transparency on COVID origin data
Nobel Intent,
Enlarge / WHO's COVID-19 technical lead, Maria Van Kerkhove, looks on during a press conference at the World Health Organization…
COVID Lab Leak Theory Rises Again
Science-Based Medicine,
FBI Director supports the lab leak hypothesis, but there is no new evidence, and scientists still favor the spillover hypothesis.
The Covid Lab Leak is a Scandal of Media and Government Censorship
JONATHAN TURLEY,
Below is my column in the New York Post on the Wall Street Journal revealing that the Department of Energy has concluded that…
Gain-of-function research on viruses justifies itself with a scientific error
Genomics, Evolution, and Pseudoscience,
We still don’t know where Covid-19 started, although we’re pretty sure it started in or near the city of Wuhan, China. The…
How the Lab-Leak Theory Went From Fringe to Mainstream—and Why It’s a Warning
Slate Blogs,
Three years ago, Tom Cotton ushered it into the public conversation.
Did West Africa’s Ebola Outbreak of 2014 Have a Lab Origin?
Independent Science News | Food, Health and Agriculture Bioscience News,
by Sam Husseini and Jonathan Latham, PhD Between 2014 and 2016, West Africa endured an Ebola epidemic that was easily the…
TWiV 940: Eddie Holmes in on viral origins
This Week in Virology with Vincent Racaniello,
Eddie Holmes joins TWiV to discuss his role in the first release of the SARS-CoV-2 genome sequence, what really happened during…
The rise and fall of the lab leak hypothesis for the origin of SARS-CoV-2
Science-Based Medicine,
Two new studies were published last week that strongly support a natural zoonotic origin for COVID-19 centered at the wet…
New Studies on the Origin of COVID-19
Science-Based Medicine,
New evidence strongly supports the conclusion that SARS-CoV-2 emerged from the wet markets of Wuhan, killing the lab-leak…
Fauci’s COVID Origin SWAT Team Versus the Mojiang Miner Passage Theory
Independent Science News | Food, Health and Agriculture Bioscience News,
by Jonathan Latham, PhD On February 1st, 2020, Anthony Fauci, head of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious…
mRNA Vaccines: A Flawed Idea from the Start
Science Blog,
The mRNA vaccines for COVID are doubly flawed. One problem in particular must have been known to the biochemists and the other…
Delete, Deny, and Destroy: Chinese and Western Strategies To Erase COVID’s Origin Are Being Exposed By Independent Research
Independent Science News | Food, Health and Agriculture Bioscience News,
by Jonathan Latham, PhD and Allison Wilson, PhD The task of every COVID-19 origin theory is to explain a human outbreak in Wuhan…
COVID-19 probably started in a live animal market rather than a lab. That's still a huge problem.
Genomics, Evolution, and Pseudoscience,
A couple of weeks ago, three scientific studies were released on preprint servers (meaning they haven’t yet been peer-reviewed)…
Schneider Shorts 4.03.2022 – Failed Scientists
For Better Science,
Schneider Shorts 4.03.2022 - my Macchiarini reporting passed peer review, scientists in Fascist Russia sanctioned by German…
Orwellian Science
Science Blog,
It was January, 2020, the very beginning of COVID, when news articles began appearing that connected the genetics of the virus…
Omicron Origins—Omicron Optimism
Josh Mitteldorf,
The genome of Omicron has taken the community of public health scientists by surprise. Not only are there a large number of…
Fancy a pangolin infected with coronavirus? Apparently, many people do
ConservationBytes.com,
The logic of money contradicts the logic of species conservation and human health. As illegal trade has driven pangolins to…
Schneider Shorts 24.12.2021 – Merry Christmas!
For Better Science,
Schneider Shorts 24.12.2021 - Join our founder and CEO for a Yuletide party with chocolate, coffee, rotten cassava, autistic…
La crise sanitaire de la Covid-19, une crise de la dette sociale ?
Hypotheses,
Posted in: fr.hypotheses.orgpar Bruno Théret Contribution au séminaire international, « Sociopolitical coalitions and th..
Science Closes In on Covid’s Origins - WSJ
The Right Coast,
Based on experience with SARS-1 in 2003 and MERS in 2012, we know that many people are infected by a host animal long before a…
The Origins of COVID
NeuroLogica Blog,
We are approaching two years into this pandemic and we still haven’t proved the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. However, this…
Did COVID-19 originate in a laboratory? Many scientists still harbor questions
Genetic Literacy Project,
Phylogeographic Mapping of Newly Discovered Coronaviruses Pinpoints the Direct Progenitor of SARS-CoV-2 as Originating from Mojiang, China
Counter Punch,
Back in March, the World Health Organisation’s report on the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic coronavirus confirmed something…
Phylogeographic Mapping of Newly Discovered Coronaviruses Pinpoints the Direct Progenitor of SARS-CoV-2 as Originating from Mojiang, China
Independent Science News | Food, Health and Agriculture Bioscience News,
by Jonathan Latham, PhD and Allison Wilson, PhD Back in March, the World Health Organisation’s report on the origin of the COVID…
After the lab-leak theory, US-Chinese relations head downhill
Nuclear News,
The United States and China could work together in sharing biosecurity-related samples, genetic materials and data, developing…
US-Chinese relations head downhill
Stan Van Houcke ,
After the lab-leak theory, US-Chinese relations head downhillBy Yanzhong Huang | July 16, 2021The combative Chinese Ministry…
Schneider Shorts 16.07.2021 – Pinche Estúpido
For Better Science,
Schneider Shorts 15.07.2021: TCM robots and Russian lasers in space, Swedish whistleblowers at the EU Court of Justice…
Maybe both sides are right: If SARS-CoV-2 was leaked from a Wuhan lab, it doesn’t mean the virus was necessarily engineered
Genetic Literacy Project,
In hunt for Covid’s origin, new studies point away from lab leak theory
Science news, comment and analysis | theguardian.com,
Amid the heavily politicised debate, a lot of evidence now points to a natural spillover event – but other causes cannot be…
The next pandemic is already happening – targeted disease surveillance can help prevent it
Environewsbits,
by Maureen Miller (Columbia University) As more and more people around the world are getting vaccinated, one can almost hear…
Virus Scientist Kristian Andersen On Fauci Email and Lab-Leak Theory
NYT > Politics,
In early 2020, Kristian Andersen wrote to Anthony Fauci about the possibility of an engineered coronavirus. His research has…
Why the "Lab Leak" Hypothesis Doesn’t Mean the COVID-19 Virus was Engineered
Genomics, Evolution, and Pseudoscience,
The “lab leak” hypothesis about the origin of Covid-19 has been getting a lot of attention lately, and deservedly so. This is…
The Lab leak Theory
For Better Science,
A lab leak theory of the COVID-19 origins has enough circumstantial evidence and historical basis to support the urgent need…
What to Know About the Latest Covid-19 Lab Leak Hype
Paleofuture,
The debate over the origins of covid-19 is reaching a fever pitch. On Monday, the Wall Street Journal published an article…
Viewpoint: Why the Wuhan lab escape theory explaining the origin of the global pandemic isn’t going away anytime soon
Genetic Literacy Project,
Schneider Shorts 4.06.2021- Israeli Scientists Jokes
For Better Science,
Schneider Shorts 4.06.2021: Israeli Scientists jokes, the business model of Nature Medicine, Retraction Watch exposing a…
A Very Calm Guide to the Lab Leak Theory
Slate Blogs,
Separating the conspiracy theory from the science.
The next pandemic is already happening – targeted disease surveillance can help prevent it
Mapping Ignorance,
Author: Maureen Miller, Adjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Columbia…
The origin of COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan?
Indian Strategic Studies,
By Nicholas Wade Source Link Members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of the COVID-19…
The next pandemic is already happening – targeted disease surveillance can help prevent it
PreventionWeb News & Announcements,
The next pandemic threat is likely already making its way through the population right now.
The origin of SARS-CoV-2, revisited
Science-Based Medicine,
Since early in the pandemic, scientists have overwhelmingly concluded that the evidence makes a natural origin for SARS-CoV-2…
Why the ‘lab-leak’ theory of Covid’s origins has gained prominence again | Stephen Buranyi
Science news, comment and analysis | theguardian.com,
Both sides in the ‘natural versus manmade’ debate remain deadlocked as the search for the source of Sars-CoV-2 goes onJoe Biden…
Vernetzte Netze, nasses Nass, hohe Höhen
Climate Science,
Wo Harald Lesch 12 mal irrte. Kennen Sie vernetzte Netze? Dann lernen Sie sie jetzt kennen. Es ist nämliche eine Formulierung…
Sobre el origen del SARS-CoV-2
microBIO,
Qué pasa, ¿qué ahora todos se han vuelto negacionistas y conspiranoicos? El pasado 14 de mayo, un grupo de científicos de…
Vernetzte Netze, nasses Nass, hohe Höhen
Kaltesonne,
Wo Harald Lesch 12 mal irrte. Kennen Sie vernetzte Netze? Dann lernen Sie sie jetzt kennen. Es ist nämliche eine Formulierung…
Scientists Don’t Want to Ignore the Wuhan ‘Lab Leak’ Theory, Despite No New Evidence
NYT > Politics,
Many scientists welcomed President Biden’s call for a more rigorous investigation of a virus lab in Wuhan, China, though they…
Scientists Don’t Want to Ignore the ‘Lab Leak’ Theory, Despite No New Evidence
NYT > Politics,
Many scientists welcomed President Biden’s call for a more rigorous investigation of a virus lab in Wuhan, China, though they…
Lab or Nature? The Current Evidence For Each of The SARS-CoV-2 Origin Theories
Science Alert,
Facts, not conspiracies.
Why the suspicion on China’s Wuhan lab virus is growing. Read these new analyses
Indian Strategic Studies,
TARA KARTHA Source LinkIt’s been nearly eighteen months since the coronavirus brought the world on its knees, with India in the…
The Wuhan Lab and the Virus: The Dr. Fauci, Rand Paul Debate Fact-Checked and Explained
Indian Strategic Studies,
BY FRED GUTERL Source LinkSenator Rand Paul went on the attack in the Senate chambers earlier this week over the origins of the…
Collapse of the fake consensus on Covid-19 origins
Climate Science,
Reposted from Dr. Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. Posted on May 23, 2021 by curryja by Judith…
Collapse of the fake consensus on Covid-19 origins
Whatts Up With That,
Reposted from Dr. Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. Posted on May 23, 2021 by curryja by Judith Curry The concerning saga of the…
Collapse of the fake consensus on Covid-19 origins
Climate Science,
by Judith…
Collapse of the fake consensus on Covid-19 origins
Iowa Climate,
by Judith…
The origin of COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan?
Indian Strategic Studies,
By Nicholas Wade Source Link The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted lives the world over for more than a year. Its death toll will…
Collapse of the fake consensus on Covid-19 origins
Climate Etc.,
by Judith…
The origin of COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan?
Indian Strategic Studies,
By Nicholas Wade Source LinkThe COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted lives the world over for more than a year. Its death toll will…
¿Es hora de investigar si el nuevo coronavirus salió de un laboratorio?
EcoAvant.com - Portada,
"La presencia de grandes reservorios de virus similares al SARS-CoV-1 en murciélagos de herradura, junto con la cultura del sur…
SARS-CoV-2 – a natural event or a lab escape?
SciBlogs,
In books and movies it is often a good plot point for a disease (or monster) to escape, accidentally or with assistance, from a…
Did the coronavirus escape from a lab? The idea deserves a second look, scientists say
Booster Shots - latimes.com,
Scientists are urging their colleagues to dig deeper into the origins of the coronavirus behind the pandemic, including the…
Unthinkable Thoughts
Science Blog,
This essay is inspired by Dr Mercola’s announcement last week that (reading between the lines) his life and his family’s have…
Unthinkable Thoughts
Josh Mitteldorf,
This essay is inspired by Dr Mercola’s announcement last week that (reading between the lines) his life and his family’s have…
China owns Nature magazine's ass: Debunking "The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2" claiming COVID-19 definitely wasn't from a lab - Harvard to the Big House
The Right Coast,
Maybe you shouldn’t blindly believe everything you read? Even if the source has a pretty solid reputation?Naturemagazine has…
Debating the possible origins of COVID-19: A lab-escaped bioweapon? Animal poop? Random mutations of an existing virus?
Genetic Literacy Project,
3 Possible Origins of COVID: Lab Escapee, Evolution, or Mutator Genes?
DNA Science Blog,
“Virus outbreak: research says COVID-19 likely synthetic,” shouted the headline in the Taipei Times on February 23, 2020. The…
How the coronavirus origin story is being rewritten by a guerrilla Twitter group - CNET
CNET News,
The group, Drastic, has investigated, corrected, uncovered and agitated in a quest to reveal the starting point of the pandemic.
The Origins of SARS-CoV-2
Science-Based Medicine,
The joint WHO-China investigation report concludes that a lab origin for COVID-19 is "extremely unlikely" but doubts remain.
The complex, messy hunt for COVID-19's origin and the lab leak theory - CNET
CNET News,
A tangle of conspiracy and politicking has complicated the investigation into the pandemic's origin.
The WHO Report On COVID-19's Origins Shows We May Never Know Where The Coronavirus Came From
BuzzFeed - Latest,
As a World Health Organization and Chinese study into the origins of the pandemic gives no conclusive answers, the…
How did the pandemic start? The fine line between truth and conspiracy
ZME Science,
Theory or conspiracy theory? It's important to separate facts from fiction.
On the Anniversary of the Pandemic, Considering the Bioweapon Hypothesis
DNA Science Blog,
A year ago, the Director General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, delivered the message that would…
Why China and the WHO Will Never Find a Zoonotic Origin For the COVID-19 Pandemic Virus
Independent Science News | Food, Health and Agriculture Bioscience News,
by Jonathan Latham, PhD and Allison Wilson, PhD In China there is a popular joke about the southern city of Guangzhou (Canton).
The WHO’s Wuhan Investigation Was Never Going to Satisfy Anyone
Slate Blogs,
If you were suspicious of China before, you probably still are.
New details emerge of how pandemic began: WHO team still eyes animal source
Nobel Intent,
Enlarge / Peter Ben Embarek (R) talks with Liang Wannian (L) during a press conference following a visit by the international…
China tosses more obstacles at WHO team investigating pandemic’s origin
Nobel Intent,
Enlarge / Health workers in personal protection suits stand next to buses at a cordoned-off section of the international…
Il coronavirus non è stato creato da “esperimenti cinesi” come dice Salvini: ecco perché
Scienze fanpage,
La teoria complottista del coronavirus "fuggito" da un laboratorio di Wuhan si è diffusa sin dall'inizio della pandemia, e…
Trump Lawyer Rudy Giuliani Uncorks Rant: Democrats Prevented 2020 from Rightfully Ending with 9/11-Style Nationalism Against China
Law & Crime,
In a year-end video message laden with conspiracy theories, Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer to President Donald Trump, said 2020 (the…
Top US Official Says ‘Growing Body Of Evidence’ Shows COVID-19 Leaked From Chinese Lab
Wake Up To The Truth,
by Tyler Durden Monday, Jan 04, 2021 The most ‘credible’ theory about the origin of COVID-19 is that it escaped from a Chinese…
From abundance to enough
ABC Religion,
The COVID-19 pandemic has been and may continue to be a global tragedy, but there are lessons we can learn from it …
Origin story: what do we know now about where coronavirus came from?
Science news, comment and analysis | theguardian.com,
When Chinese scientists alerted colleagues to a new virus last December, suspicion fell on a Wuhan market. What have health…
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