Nature’s Proximal Origin Paper Was a Work of ‘Fraud and Scientific Misconduct,’ Say Scientists Demanding a Retraction

Among those to sign the petition demanding a retraction was Neil Harrison, a professor of anesthesiology and molecular pharmacology at Columbia University.

Virologists and their allies have produced a number of papers that purport to show that the virus was of natural origin and that the pandemic began at the Huanan seafood market," HarrisontoldThe Telegraph. In fact there is no evidence for either of these conclusions, and the email and Slack messages among the authors show that they knew at the time that this was the case."