Searching for SARS-CoV-2 origins: confidence versus evidence
In our July, 2022, Editorial—entitled Searching for SARS-CoV-2 origins: the saga continues—we wrote: “To discover the source of an outbreak we must work forward without preconceptions, following wherever the evidence leads”. Last month, several news outlets reported that two US agencies investigating the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the Energy Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), had information suggesting that the COVID-19 pandemic had resulted from a laboratory leak. With current genome editing technology it is easy to manipulate a virus in a laboratory, but it is much easier to manipulate public opinion with political language….[read more]
