Chinese virologist Shi Zhengli (L) is seen inside the P4 laboratory in Wuhan in this 2017 photo. The P4 epidemiological laboratory, part of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, is one of the world's ...

Some 17 months ago, Tom Cotton was warning anyone who would listen that the novel coronavirus very likely emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The media have finally caught on that, huh, ...

The head of the World Health Organization said it was “premature” to rule out the possibility that the novel coronavirus leaked from a laboratory, in comments to reporters on Thursday. The WHO is ...

“If all of mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would ...

Politics, prejudice, conspiracies and media bias have impoverished our ability to intelligently dissect the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. On the one hand, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Steven Salzberg is a Professor who writes about science, good and bad The “lab leak” hypothesis about the origin of Covid-19 has ...

Where and when the Covid-19 pandemic began — in Wuhan, China in late 2019 — is well known. How it began is a matter of heated controversy. There are two competing hypotheses, one of which is hindering ...