Top virologist says media stories on his private messages driving ‘ridiculous’ conspiracies
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Renowned virologist Professor Eddie Holmes says he is “so grateful” for support from the scientific community after news reports on his private messages about SARS-CoV-2’s origins provided fuel for conspiracy theories.
In March 2020, the evolutionary virologist from the University of Sydney and four of his colleagues published a paper in Nature Medicine, which concluded it was “improbable” that SARS-CoV-2 escaped from a laboratory.