DRASTIC, a group of internet users with no expertise in virology, has been pushing their hypothesis of a research accident in ...

The CIA now assesses the virus that causes Covid-19 more likely originated from an accidental lab leak in China, rather than occurring naturally, according to a statement from the agency Saturday, ...

The problem for the lab-leak position is that the U.S. has never had access to the Wuhan lab and has thus been unable to ...

The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory.

Although definitions of gain-of-function differ, investigative reports leave no question researchers manipulated ...

On January 25, 2025, however, the CIA revised its previous assessment, announcing that it now favored a laboratory-associated ...

The Central Intelligence Agency has thrown its weight behind the lab leak theory as the most plausible origin of COVID-19 in a “low confidence” assessment. Without providing details about why ...

The Central Intelligence Agency said Saturday that it’s more likely a lab leak caused the Covid-19 pandemic than an infected animal that spread the virus to people, changing the agency’s ...

The virus that started the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a lab in China, the CIA said in a new assessment, though it has no conclusive evidence.

While the CIA is now backing the often-called lab leak theory of covid-19’s origins, however, the agency stated that it only has a “low degree of confidence” in its conclusion. Furthermore ...