Edinburgh University Blocks Requests to Release Lab Leak Emails

Published on January 22, 2024

Edinburgh University has been accused of blocking access to emails that would reveal the involvement of one of its professors in promoting a widely cited controversial paper that denied the hypothesis that COVID-19 leaked from a lab in China. In an article for Unherd, author Ian Birrell said despite multiple Freedom of Information requests, communications regarding a top virologist are being kept secret. The investigation centres around Edinburgh University’s Andrew Rambaut’s involvement in Proximal Origin, a research paper commissioned by Dr. Anthony Fauci to push the natural origin narrative for the emergence of COVID-19 and suppress the lab leak hypothesis....