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Lancet medical journal declined US Senate COVID origins ask
Richard Horton said the journal will not provide records after a Senate request covering coronaviruses from 2018 to 2022.
Summary
Leading medical journal The Lancet will decline a request to provide evidence for a U.S. Senate inquiry into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, its editor-in-chief Richard Horton told Reuters in an interview on Friday. "We have received a request to go and give evidence at a Senate inquiry, which we're not going to do," Horton told Reuters at the Reuters Pharma event in Barcelona.
The journal will not cooperate "with a government that has attacked some of the most important scientists of our time," said its editor-in-chief, Richard Horton.