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

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

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November 24, 2020

FOI documents on origins of SARS-CoV-2, hazards of gain-of-function research and biosafety labs

U.S. Right to Know is researching the origins of SARS-CoV-2, and the hazards of biosafety laboratories and gain-of-function research, which aims to increase the infectivity or lethality of potential...

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

Validity of key studies on origin of coronavirus in doubt; science journals investigating

By Carey Gillam Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019, scientists have searched for clues about what led to the emergence of its causative agent, the novel...

November 9, 2020

U.S. Right to Know Sues NIH for Documents about Origins of SARS-CoV-2

News Release For Immediate Release: Thursday, November 5, 2020 For More Information Contact: Gary Ruskin (415) 944-7350 or Sainath Suryanarayanan U.S. Right to Know, an investigative public...

November 5, 2020

Why we are researching the origins of SARS-CoV-2, biosafety labs and GOF research

See the Biohazards Blog for updates on our investigation, and we are posting documents from our investigation here. Sign up here to receive weekly updates.  In July 2020, U.S. Right to Know...

October 13, 2020

Reading list: What are the origins of SARS-CoV-2? What are the risks of gain-of-function research?

Here is a reading list about what is known and not known about the origins of SARS-CoV-2, accidents and leaks at biosafety and biowarfare laboratories, and the health risks of gain-of-function (GOF)...

October 13, 2020