Chinese scientists sought to change name of deadly coronavirus to distance it from China

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of scientists affiliated with China’s government tried to distance the coronavirus from China by influencing its official naming. Nodding to the...

February 17, 2021

Emails show scientists discussed masking their involvement in key journal letter on Covid origins

EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak, the head of an organization involved in research that genetically manipulates coronaviruses, discussed hiding his role in a statement published last year...

February 15, 2021

Colorado State University documents on bat pathogen research

This post describes documents of Colorado State University (CSU) Professors Rebekah Kading and Tony Schountz, which U.S. Right to Know obtained from a public records request. Kading and Schountz are...

January 21, 2021

How safe are the biolabs at Colorado State?

A draft funding proposal for the construction of a new biolab at Colorado State University raises questions about safety and security at its existing biolabs in Fort Collins, Colorado. The...

January 21, 2021

USRTK asks ODNI to declassify documents about accidents at labs that store dangerous pathogens

U.S. Right to Know (USRTK) has asked the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) to declassify three documents about biosafety lapses occurring in laboratories that store dangerous...

January 8, 2021

Altered datasets raise more questions about reliability of key studies on coronavirus origins

Revisions to genomic datasets associated with four key studies on coronavirus origins add further questions about the reliability of these studies, which provide foundational support for the...

December 29, 2020

No peer review for addendum to prominent coronavirus origins study?

The journal Nature did not assess the reliability of important claims made in a November 17 addendum to a study on the bat-origins of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, correspondence with Nature...

December 18, 2020

New emails show scientists’ deliberations on how to discuss SARS-CoV-2 origins 

Newly obtained emails offer glimpses into how a narrative of certainty developed about the natural origins of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, while key scientific questions remained. The internal...

December 14, 2020

Items from coronavirus expert Ralph Baric‘s emails 

This page lists documents in Professor Ralph Baric’s emails, which U.S. Right to Know obtained via a public records request. Dr. Baric is a coronavirus expert at the University of North Carolina,...

December 14, 2020

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