After a delay caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, US biosecurity board revisits policies governing risky pathogen experiments.
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An investigative report by Vanity Fair contributor Katherine Eban, based on more than100,000 EcoHealth Alliance documents, shows a disturbing reality of “murky grantagreements, fl imsy NIH oversight and pursuit of government grants by pitchingincreasingly risky global research”
In 2014, EcoHealth received a $3.7 million NIAID grant to study the risk of batcoronavirus emergence and the potential for outbreaks in human populations. Nearly$600,000 of that went to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which was a key collaborator
The 2014 grant highlights the truth of what critics of
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What's really happening in Ukraine? Are Russia's claims about the US funding bioweapons research correct?
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Chasing scientific renown, grant dollars, and approval from Dr. Anthony Fauci, Peter Daszak transformed the environmental nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance into a government-funded sponsor of risky, cutting-edge virus research in both the U.S. and Wuhan, China. Drawing on more than 100,000 leaked documents, a V.F. investigation shows how an organization dedicated to preventing the next pandemic found itself suspected of helping start one.
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and individual states are nowbacktracking on their COVID death statistics, showing those of us who claimed deathswere being overcounted were right all along.
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The worldwide toll of deaths from Covid-19 has just hit 6 million, nearly 1 million of which are in the United States. Few science stories are more important than understanding where the Covid virus came from. Yet the science writers’ section of the press corps has proved strangely incapable of telling the story straight.
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Fresh suspicion that Covid may have been tinkered with in a lab emerged today after scientists found genetic material owned by Moderna in the virus's spike protein. They identified a tiny snippet of code that is identical to part of a gene patented by the vaccine maker three years before the pandemic.
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Beijing officials have disappeared seven media members for reporting on COVID-19, but allow Jane Qiu access to government researchers for celebrity interview on hair?
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I’ve always considered myself basically a radical populist and a political independent. In the 1960s I was part of the Yippies, as my mentor in the New Left, Abbie Hoffman, called us, rejecting authoritarian socialism and communism as well as corporate “profit-at-any cost” capitalism and imperialism. We listened to John Lennon, rather than Vladimir Lenin. I was born and raised in Texas, where I was heavily influenced by my beloved Louisiana-born Cajun grandparents, traditional family farmers and populists in the tradition of Huey Long.
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