The UK is blinding itself to the truth about COVID’s origins
Matt Ridley
As a US Senate committee’s full, 300-page report on the origin of covid now makes clear, a whole string of clues now points towards a laboratory accident as the probable cause of the covid pandemic. For example, there is: evidence of a biosafety crisis at the lab in the autumn of 2019; the Chinese […]
The search for Covid-19’s origins continues to be hindered by fear of offending China
Matt Ridley
The Lancet Commission is the latest to highlight how seeking the truth has come second to other considerations The Lancet Commission into “lessons for the future from the COVID-19 pandemic”, written by 40 scientists and public health experts, and chaired by the economist Jeffrey Sachs, has concluded that “the origin of the virus remains […]
Has the lab leak theory really been disproved?
Matt Ridley
There doesn’t seem to be a smoking gun in the latest ‘evidence’ The BBC carried a story this week with the headline ‘Covid origin studies say evidence points to Wuhan market’. Bizarrely the paper in Sciencethey are referring to, by Michael Worobey and colleagues, says no such thing. It says: ‘the observation that the preponderance of early cases […]
Introducing the Fully Updated Paperback Edition of Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19
Matt Ridley
The revised and expanded paperback edition of my newest book, Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19, co-authored with the brilliant scientist Alina Chan, is now available to purchase in the United States, in the United Kingdom, and elsewhere. It was a privilege to help Alina write Viral, and a privilege to create this […]
A WHO pandemic pact would leave the world at China’s mercy
Matt Ridley
Lessons have still not been learned, so why should we trust the WHO in a future pandemic? My article for Telegraph: On 22 May, the World Health Organisation meets for the World Health Assembly, an annual summit to which all the world’s countries are invited – except Taiwan, which is excluded at China’s behest. On […]
The WHO is complicit in China’s Winter Olympics smokescreen
Matt Ridley
Will Dr Tedros use the Beijing Games to deliver some home truths to China? Probably not My article for the Telegraph: The news that Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organisation, is to attend the Winter Olympics in Beijing is baffling on a number of levels. Has he not got a day […]
I was duped by the Covid lab leak deniers
Matt Ridley
That senior scientists saw evidence for theories that they trashed in public has shattered trust in science My article for the Telegraph: Inch by painful inch, the truth is being dragged out about how this pandemic started. It is just about understandable, if not forgivable, that Chinese scientists have obfuscated vital information about early cases […]
Why did scientists suppress the lab-leak theory?
Matt Ridley
In private, they said it was plausible. In public, they called it a conspiracy theory. My article for Spiked: In August 2007 there was an outbreak of foot-and-mouth virus on a farm in Surrey. It was a few miles from the world’s leading reference laboratory for identifying outbreaks of foot and mouth. Nobody thought this […]
Testifying Before Parliament on the Origin of Covid (Full Video)
Matt Ridley
Our Testimony for the Science and Technology Committee of the House of Commons, This morning, Viral co-author Alina Chan and I testified before Parliament—specifically, the Science and Technology Committee of the House of Commons—on the search for the origin of COVID-19. It’s available to watch (and share) on YouTube, and we have shared clips on […]
SARS-Cov-2 Lab Leak in Taiwan Confirmed
Matt Ridley
The infection took place in a Biosafety Level 3 lab According to Taiwan News, and since picked up by Western media, a (recent) SARS-Cov-2 lab leak has been confirmed in (the Republic of) China. SARS-Cov-2 is the virus that causes COVID-19. The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) concluded on Saturday (Dec. 11) that an assistant […]
