Matt Ridley
It is now five years since we woke to the news of a new outbreak of infectious pneumonia in China. Retelling the story of those early days of the Covid pandemic helps to shed light on how something that could have been prevented, contained and eradicated instead went on to kill more than 20 million […]
Matt Ridley
This appeared in The Daily Mail; https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14239533/MATT-RIDLEY-Ozempic-weight-loss-drugs-end-obesity-illnesses.html Imagine if you could eat your fill on Christmas day then dial down your appetite for January. Good news: such a prospect may be within sight. Weight-loss drugs are getting better and achieving results where decades of hectoring and dieting have failed – in yet another miracle of […]
Wuhan wager: the $400 ‘bio bet’ that predicted the pandemic
Matt Ridley
This appeared in the Spectator; https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/wuhan-wager-the-400-bio-bet-that-predicted-the-pandemic/ At the end of the year, one of the world’s most renowned scientists will send $400 to a charity to settle a wager with another of the world’s most renowned scientists. We don’t yet know which will win, but it is likely to be the wrong one, in my […]
The explosive truth about the origin of Covid-19 may finally be about to emerge
Matt Ridley
Appeared in The Telegraph; https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/comment/2024/12/06/explosive-truth-about-origin-covid-19-emerge/ Trump’s new lieutenants, Jay Bhattacharya and John Ratcliffe, are convinced that a lab leak was probably the source It is now five years since we woke to the news of a new outbreak of infectious pneumonia in China. Retelling the story of those early days of the Covid pandemic helps […]
