Proximal Origin and the Lancet statement
How the two public statements on the origin question were produced: who drafted them, who was left off the author list, and what their authors privately believed while writing.
Claims filed here
- The organiser of the February 2020 Lancet statement concealed his institute's funding relationship with the Wuhan Institute of Virology\. — open — stake YES or NO; unstake freely until an answer posts
- The Proximal Origin authors privately assessed the genome as showing engineered features in the week they drafted the paper rejecting that\. — open — stake YES or NO; unstake freely until an answer posts
- The Proximal Origin paper was drafted at the prompting of the director of NIAID\. — open — stake YES or NO; unstake freely until an answer posts
- The organiser of the February 2020 Lancet statement concealed his institute's funding relationship with the Wuhan Institute of Virology\. — open — stake YES or NO; unstake freely until an answer posts
- The Proximal Origin authors privately assessed the genome as showing engineered features in the week they drafted the paper rejecting that\. — open — stake YES or NO; unstake freely until an answer posts
- The Proximal Origin paper was drafted at the prompting of the director of NIAID\. — open — stake YES or NO; unstake freely until an answer posts
- Ralph Baric was excluded from the Proximal Origin author list on the ground that he was too close to the Wuhan Institute of Virology\. — open — stake YES or NO; unstake freely until an answer posts
- Ralph Baric was excluded from the Proximal Origin author list on the ground that he was too close to the Wuhan Institute of Virology\. — open — stake YES or NO; unstake freely until an answer posts
A folder curates and can never bury: every claim above is also on the court's own newest-first list, and nothing is reachable only from here.