The Lab-Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19’s Origins

Throughout 2020, the notion that the novel coronavirus leaked from a lab was off-limits. Those who dared to push for transparency say toxic politics and hidden agendas kept us in the dark.BY KATHERINE EBAN JUNE 3, 2021

Why the Wuhan lab-leak origin theory of the COVID-19 virus is being taken more seriously

For Canadian biotech entrepreneur Yuri Deigin, whose 16,000-word essay last April provided one of the first detailed arguments that the COVID-19 virus could have escaped from a Chinese lab, the recent traction gained by such a theory provides a measure of satisfaction. “When I just put it out, I was ridiculed and attacked as aContinue reading “Why the Wuhan lab-leak origin theory of the COVID-19 virus is being taken more seriously”

Origin of Covid — Following the Clues

Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan? The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted lives the world over for more than a year. Its death toll will soon reach three million people. Yet the origin of pandemic remains uncertain: the political agendas of governments and scientists have generated thick clouds of obfuscation, which the mainstreamContinue reading “Origin of Covid — Following the Clues”

How the coronavirus origin story is being rewritten by a guerrilla Twitter group

Jackson Ryan April 15, 2021 The Seeker poured a strong cup of chai and lit a cigarette. He was onto something. Alternating between a smartphone and a laptop, the former science teacher from the northeast Indian city of Bhubaneswar punched keywords into the search bar of CNKI, one of China’s foremost databases of scientific papers. Continue reading “How the coronavirus origin story is being rewritten by a guerrilla Twitter group”

Bats, pangolins, wet market, lab? The mystery deepens

Details of the research done by a Wuhan lab on viruses closely related to COVID-19, and of the secrecy surrounding it, have grown increasingly hard to dismiss. By MATT RIDLEY & ALINA CHAN