Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19
Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19 ialah buku 2021 oleh ahli biologi molekul Kanada Alina Chan dan penulis sains British Matt Ridley. Penulis menghuraikan penyiasatan berterusan tentang asal usul COVID-19.
| Umum | |
|---|---|
| Pengarang | Alina Chan dam Matt Ridley |
| Penerbitan | |
Diterbitkan pada | 16 November 2021 |
| Penerbit | HarperCollins |
| Kawalan kewibawaan | |
| ISBN | ISBN 978-0-00-848749-2 |
Buku itu telah menerima ulasan bercampur-campur.[1][2] Adam O'Neal dari Wall Street Journal berkata buku itu telah menyusun "mungkin kes paling komprehensif untuk teori kebocoran makmal yang ada sekarang".[3][4][5][6] Kolumnis Michael Hiltzik dalam Los Angeles Times menulis bahawa pengarang telah meletakkan "teori konspirasi antara kulit keras untuk menyamar sebagai siasatan saintifik yang sedar" dan ia boleh membawa penggubal dasar ke jalan yang salah "memudaratkan manusia".[7] Kajian dalam The Times of London menyifatkan ia sebagai menyimpulkan bahawa hipotesis kebocoran makmal adalah "sangat mungkin" dan bukannya "pasti benar".[8] Menulis dalam wartawan perubatan The Guardian Mark Honigsbaum menganggap hujah utamanya tidak meyakinkan, dan mengkritik buku itu kerana menyimpang daripada keperluan untuk menangani punca limpahan semula jadi, seperti pemanasan global dan kemusnahan habitat.[9]
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- ^ Pells, Rachel (22 November 2021). "Covid lab-leak researcher is glad she challenged China's Wuhan 'cover up' despite death threats". iNews. Dicapai pada 10 December 2021.
Chan’s critics have multiplied – as have her supporters – with the publication of Viral ... The book has invoked mixed reactions.
- ^ Poole, Steven (9 November 2021). "Viral by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley review: pushes the lab-leak theory behind Covid too hard". The Telegraph. Dicapai pada 10 December 2021.
Viral ... pretends to be agnostic between the two while pimping the lab-leak scenario for all it’s worth... This book shows well how coronaviruses spill over naturally between species all the time... One can agree ... with the book’s passionate argument for closer regulation of ... ‘gain-of-function research’.
- ^ O'Neal, Adam (26 November 2021). "What Happened in Wuhan?". Wall Street Journal.
In ‘Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19,’ molecular biologist Alina Chan and author Matt Ridley assemble perhaps the most comprehensive case for the lab-leak theory currently available.
- ^ Pearson, Allison; Halligan, Liam; Ridley, Matt; Bougeard, Isabelle (25 November 2021). "Planet Normal: Dismissing Wuhan lab leak theory was a 'shocking episode in the history of science'". The Telegraph. Dicapai pada 23 December 2021.
- ^ Staff, Jonathan Saltzman Globe; November 14, Updated. "Broad Institute researcher wants to fade into obscurity, but first she hopes her COVID book is a bestseller - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Dicapai pada 23 December 2021.
- ^ Beyerstein, Lindsay (10 December 2021). "This Terrible Book Shows Why the Covid-19 Lab Leak Theory Won't Die". The New Republic. Dicapai pada 23 December 2021.
- ^ Hiltzik, Michael (15 November 2021). "These authors wanted to push the COVID-19 lab-leak theory. Instead they exposed its weaknesses". Los Angeles Times. Dicapai pada 10 December 2021.
The Chinese are secretive about all things... The shame of ‘Viral’ is that it promotes a groundless theory that threatens to lead policymakers, as well as members of the public, down the wrong road, to humankind’s enduring detriment.
- ^ Chivers, Tom (20 November 2021). "Viral by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley review — Did Covid-19 leak from a Chinese lab?". The Times. Dicapai pada 10 December 2021.
These stories all seem to be real; I've followed up on all the ones I've mentioned and confirmed them... The book, fairly, does not conclude that the lab-leak hypothesis is definitely true, merely that it is highly possible, and I agree.
- ^ Honigsbaum, Mark (15 November 2021). "Viral by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley review – Was Covid-19 really made in China?". The Guardian. Dicapai pada 10 December 2021.
There is just one problem: nowhere do they present proof that Sars-CoV-2 was manufactured.