House Committee Subpoenas Author of Scientific Paper Meant to Disprove COVID Lab Leak Theory
The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic issued a subpoena on Friday demanding the private messages of Dr. Kristian Andersen relating to a research study meant to disprove the COVID-19 lab leak theory.
Subcommittee Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) said that a subpoena had been issued for documents and communications from Andersen’s Slack messaging channel.
This is in relation to an academic paper titled “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2,” which Andersen co-authored and published in Nature Medicine in March 2020. The paper says the virus has a natural origin.
Andersen, a virologist at the Scripps Research Institute, testified before the subcommittee on June 16 that he and the co-authors communicated primarily over Slack while drafting the paper….