Bill Clinton promised to close the base in 1996. But plans for more construction and a heightened focus on the Pacific put the islands and their unique biodiversity at risk indefinitely.
Origins of Covid
New records from the National Institutes of Health detail internal conversations involving EcoHealth Alliance’s research in Wuhan.
Origins of Covid
A scientist told The Intercept he was advised not to “mention a lab origin as that will just add fuel to the conspiracists” after a call with NIH leaders.
José Antonio Kast’s father was in the Nazi army. Kast often speaks fondly of Chile’s former dictator Augusto Pinochet.
Origins of Covid
Emails show that NIH officials allowed EcoHealth Alliance to craft oversight language governing its own gain-of-function research.
Origins of Covid
Documents released by the NIH contradict previous assertions by EcoHealth Alliance about its experiments on bat coronaviruses in Wuhan.
Origins of Covid
The unusual timing of a bat coronavirus grant report suggests that an earlier version may have been revised.
Origins of Covid
The proposal, rejected by U.S. military research agency DARPA, describes the insertion of human-specific cleavage sites into SARS-related bat coronaviruses.
Origins of Covid
U.S.-funded experiment in China posed biosafety risks but did not cause Covid-19 pandemic, scientists say.