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Covid19 / Technology

Science journals have been corrupted by China

Published by UnHerd (13th August, 2021) Nine months ago, the scientific establishment’s determined efforts to stifle debate on the origins of the pandemic began to crumble with the […]

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China / Covid19 / World

China should not veto a pandemic origins inquiry

Published by The i paper (26th July, 2021) Just imagine if a strange new virus emerged suddenly in Salisbury, with residents of the medieval Wiltshire town starting to […]

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China / Covid19 / Health / Policy / World

China’s first virus cover-up

Published by The Mail on Sunday (25th July, 2021) Towards the end of 2002, several chefs and animal traders in the southern Chinese coastal province of Guangdong fell […]

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Covid19 / Technology

Now Lancet is accused of costing lives by sitting on a key study showing human transmission of Covid-19

Published by The Mail on Sunday (25th July 2021) The world’s most famous medical journal, The Lancet, sat on vital information being suppressed by China proving that the Covid […]

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Covid19 / Health / Policy

Did scientists stifle the lab-leak theory?

Published by UnHerd (22nd July, 2021) In September 2019, even as a new respiratory virus may have started circulating in a central Chinese city, some prominent figures issued […]

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Covid19 / Politics

Chaotic and contemptuous leaders leave the public confused on Covid

Published by The i paper (19th July, 2021) It is easy to forget that when the pandemic first emerged from Wuhan, many people in the West feared democratic […]

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Covid19 / Feature / Technology

Why won’t The Lancet admit it was wrong?

Published by UnHerd (6th July, 2021) Someone needs to tell The Lancet the most basic tenet of crisis management: when in a hole, stop digging. Instead, this world-renowned medical journal […]

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Covid19 / Health / Policy / Technology

World’s most famous medical journal is accused of doing China’s dirty work – by denouncing the Covid lab leak theory as a conspiracy

Published by The Mail on Sunday (27th June, 2012) Earlier this year, the prominent German psychiatrist Thomas Schulze sent a proposal to Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of world-renowned medical […]

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Covid19

One question our chief scientist needs to answer

Published by UnHerd (21st June, 2021) Sir Patrick Vallance has had a good pandemic. The country’s chief scientific officer pushed hard for early lockdown, came up with the […]

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Covid19 / Feature / Technology

Head of Wellcome Trust accused of ‘chilling’ bid to stifle debate on lab leak theory

Published by The Mail on Sunday (13th June, 2021) Shortly before the pandemic, Sir Jeremy Farrar, head of the globally respected Wellcome Trust, delivered a speech offering his […]

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Covid19 / Health / Policy / Technology

Beijing’s useful idiots

Published by UnHerd (8th June, 2021) Just over a year ago, I stumbled across an intriguing scientific paper. It suggested the pandemic that was ripping around the world […]

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China / Covid19 / World

Is ‘Patient Su’ Covid’s Patient Zero?

Published by The Mail on Sunday (30th May, 2021) A mistake by a leading Chinese official may have disclosed the name, address and details about one of the […]

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Ian Birrell is an award-winning columnist, foreign correspondent, feature writer and investigative journalist. He is contributing editor of The Mail on Sunday, a weekly columnist in The i Paper and writes frequently for other papers and platforms. He is also co-founder with Damon Albarn of Africa Express, the acclaimed collaborative music project. (Pictured: Talking to refugees in Iraq fleeing Islamic State)... Read More.

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