Proximal Origin and the Lancet statement

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How the two public statements on the origin question were produced: who drafted them, who was left off the author list, and what their authors privately believed while writing.

Claims filed here

• The organiser of the February 2020 Lancet statement concealed his institute's funding relationship with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. — open — stake YES or NO; unstake freely until an answer posts
• The Proximal Origin authors privately assessed the genome as showing engineered features in the week they drafted the paper rejecting that. — open — stake YES or NO; unstake freely until an answer posts
• The Proximal Origin paper was drafted at the prompting of the director of NIAID. — open — stake YES or NO; unstake freely until an answer posts
• The organiser of the February 2020 Lancet statement concealed his institute's funding relationship with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. — open — stake YES or NO; unstake freely until an answer posts
• The Proximal Origin authors privately assessed the genome as showing engineered features in the week they drafted the paper rejecting that. — open — stake YES or NO; unstake freely until an answer posts
• The Proximal Origin paper was drafted at the prompting of the director of NIAID. — open — stake YES or NO; unstake freely until an answer posts
• Ralph Baric was excluded from the Proximal Origin author list on the ground that he was too close to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. — open — stake YES or NO; unstake freely until an answer posts
• Ralph Baric was excluded from the Proximal Origin author list on the ground that he was too close to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. — open — stake YES or NO; unstake freely until an answer posts

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