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
EcoHealth Alliance orchestrated key scientists’ statement on “natural origin” of SARS-CoV-2
Update 2.15.21 - Newly surfaced Daszak email: “No need for you to sign the ‘Statement’ Ralph!!” Emails obtained by U.S. Right to Know show that a statement in The Lancet authored by 27...
November 18, 2020
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
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