Professor George Gao (inset) ex-head of China s CDC has said a lab leak cannot be ruled out and revealed that Beijing itself has considered the theory credible enough to investigate.
THE EDITOR ASKS M.D. TO PEER REVIEW PRIVATE EYE’S MMR COVERAGE M.D. writes: Private Eye got it wrong in its coverage of MMR. It gave undue prominence to unproven theories based on a small number of uncontrolled observations, and paid far less attention to the weight of evidence from large comparative studies that failed to