Richard Ebright
Cory amplifies 156×Rutgers microbiologist on biosafety and lab-leak — a domain expert, not a partisan.
Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers University and lab director at the Waksman Institute of Microbiology. A longstanding critic of gain-of-function research and lab-biosafety lapses, he co-founded the nonprofit Biosafety Now and is a prominent proponent of the COVID-19 lab-leak hypothesis, having testified to the U.S. Senate in June 2024.
Latest posts
The NYT today ran a column by its columnist Lydia Polgreen claiming that "Suggesting a transgender link to Kirk's murder is as awful as it is dangerous." In other words, the NYT now openly affirms its belief that accurately reporting facts is "as awful as it is dangerous."
1y ago · 6,239 likes
"'The French Academy of Medicine voted almost unanimously--97% to 3%--to say we believe SARS-CoV-2 originated from a lab error and precautions must be taken in the future,' revealed Professor Jean-François Delfraissy in a press conference April 2, 2025." https://t.co/nxG3Oz2MT7
1y ago · 2,285 likes
The New York Times was a knowing, willing, and eager participant in defrauding the global public and global policy makers about the origin of COVID.
1y ago · 1,774 likes
"A classified dossier compiled by Sir Richard Dearlove, the former head of MI6, was passed to then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the start of the outbreak in March 2020 which stated: 'It is now beyond reasonable doubt that Covid-19 was engineered in the WIV.'" https://t.co/u6EwCNyWtE
1y ago · 4,240 likes
The strongest case
Research that enhances a pathogen's transmissibility or lethality carries a catastrophic accidental-pandemic risk that outweighs its benefits, and therefore demands far stronger oversight, transparency, and independent review than currently exists.
And against
Critics say he asserts contested origin claims with more certainty than the evidence supports, and that his sharp public attacks on named colleagues can chill legitimate scientific debate.
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