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Under-fire Lancet admits conflict of interest on lab-leak letter

After criticism that it failed to declare Peter Daszak’s work with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, journal has also ‘recused’ zoologist from its coronavirus origins taskforce

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Elite journals under scrutiny over role in Wuhan lab leak debate

Critics argue that The Lancet failed to disclose potential conflict of interest when dismissing the leak theory

By David Matthews

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Backlash as Hamburg boosts ‘unscientific’ Covid lab leak analysis

Critics say university lent undue weight to analysis that was not peer-reviewed, but some worry scientists have shied away from fully investigating hypothesis

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Sunetra Gupta: social media attacks ‘stifling coronavirus debate’

Oxford epidemiologist and lockdown critic says ‘puritanical’ criticism of idea of herd immunity has chilled legitimate scientific and policy debate

By Jack Grove

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Researchers raising Covid lab leak theory ‘branded anti-science’

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Researchers raising Covid lab leak theory ‘branded anti-science’

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