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WHO s COVID origin probe lacks credibility, scientists warn: Sounding alarm on team s public dismissal of lab leak theory, experts cite investigators fixed views, lack of access.
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The team, led by an international cohort of researchers, said last week that it was extremely unlikely that the virus escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, an infectious disease laboratory that has for years conducted experiments with coronaviruses some of it funded by the U.S. government.
The WIV is located just a few kilometers away from the Wuhan city wet market identified as the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. A growing number of skeptics have cited the lab s well-documented research into the dangers that bat-borne coronaviruses posed to human beings as a likely source for the virus. But the WHO team concluded that theory should not be considered as an avenue of future study.
Ancient swamp kauri tree rings have shed light on crucial changes to the Earth s atmosphere, which may have led to mass extinction of megafauna and the beginning of cave art.
The Adams Event would have caused frequent and dazzling light shows in the sky - similar to the Northern and Southern Lights.
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Scientists from NIWA, the University of New South Wales Sydney (UNSW), the South Australian Museum, and the University of Waikato, have been working together on the study.
They looked at what was happening just before the event known as the Laschamp Excursion - the last time when the magnetic poles switched (north became south, south became north). This period lasted about 800 years, before the poles then flipped back.
Anthony S. Fauci, MD, director of the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), has won one of this year’s three $1 million Dan David Prizes, awarded to individuals and organizations deemed to be “globally inspiring.”
The Dan David Prize honors outstanding contributions that “expand knowledge of the past, enrich society in the present, and promise to improve the future of our world.”
“The coronavirus pandemic has presented humanity with new challenges,” stated Ariel Porat, professor and president of Tel Aviv University (TAU) and chairperson of the Dan David Prize Board. “Therefore, this year, we decided to honor the fields at the forefront of the battle against the virus health and medicine.”