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Public officials concealed their conflicts of interest and role in funding research that may have caused the pandemic, says health reporter Emily Kopp.Journalists and scientists routinely dismissed the lab leak hypothesis as a crackpot theory and even as "racist," up until the summer of 2021 when science journalist Nicholas Wade published an influential article, and a viral rant by Jon Stewart pushed it into the mainstream. Until that point, social media platforms had been removing or throttling posts that took it seriously. Anthony Fauci, who didn't respond to our interview request, said it wasn't worth even considering the possibility that...

NEW YORK - Macy's has pulled from its shelves and its Web site two styles of Sean John hooded jackets, originally advertised as featuring faux fur, after an investigation by the nation's largest animal protection organization concluded that the garments were actually made from a certain species of dog called "raccoon dog." "First these jackets were falsely advertised as faux fur, and then it turned out that the fur came from a type of dog," said Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States. Pacelle added that the issue is an "industry-wide problem" and its...

<p>July 17 (Bloomberg) -- The virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome, a disease that killed more than 800 people and infected more than 8,000 worldwide, may return in this year's flu season, according to new survey.</p> <p>Among the nine public health experts surveyed by the London- based Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, three said SARS may recur, two said SARS would not recur, and four were uncertain, according to an e-mailed statement from the British Medical Association.</p>