Scientist with conflict of interest leading Lancet COVID-19 Commission task force on virus origins

Last week, U.S. Right to Know reported that an influential statement in The Lancet signed by 27 prominent public health scientists about the origins of SARS-CoV-2 was organized by employees of...

November 24, 2020

EcoHealth Alliance orchestrated key scientists’ statement on “natural origin” of SARS-CoV-2

Emails obtained by U.S. Right to Know show that a statement in The Lancet authored by 27 prominent public health scientists condemning “conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a...

November 18, 2020

Nature journal adds “Editor’s note” highlighting concerns about the reliability of study linking pangolin coronaviruses to origin of SARS-CoV-2

On November 9, 2020, U.S. Right to Know released emails with senior authors of Liu et al. and Xiao et al., and staff and editors at PLoS Pathogens and Nature journals. These studies have provided...

November 12, 2020

Nature and PLoS Pathogens probe scientific veracity of key studies linking pangolin coronaviruses to origin of SARS-CoV-2

Sign up to receive updates from the Biohazards Blog. By Sainath Suryanarayanan, PhD  Here, we provide our emails with senior authors of Liu et al. and Xiao et al., and the editors of PLoS...

November 9, 2020

Welcome to the Biohazards Blog

In July 2020, U.S. Right to Know began submitting public records requests in pursuit of data from public institutions in an effort to discover what is known about the origins of the novel coronavirus...

November 5, 2020