
This is a detective story that’s unsolved. Hosted by investigative reporter Antonio Regalado, Curious Coincidence dives into the mysterious origins of Covid-19 by examining the genome of the virus, the labs doing sensitive research on dangerous pathogens, and questions of whether a lab accident may have touched off a global pandemic.
| Publishes | Twice monthly | Episodes | 6 | Founded | 4 years ago |
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Is some knowledge too dangerous to possess? Covid-19 has put cutting-edge research on pandemic germs under the spotlight.
We Meet:
Rowan Jacobsen, journalist
Gigi Gronvall, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and associa... more
Scientists zero in on a market in the city of Wuhan as the place the pandemic started. But information on China’s wild-animal trade is hard to uncover.
We Meet:
Michael Standaert, freelance journalist based in China
Alex Crits-Christoph, bioinform... more
Lab accidents have caused disease outbreaks before, and accidents are more common - and kept more secret - than you think.
We Meet:
Alison Young, journalism professor, Missouri School of Journalism
Gigi Gronvall, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkin... more
A group of self-appointed online investigators decide to investigate a Chinese lab. Their findings only deepen doubts.
We meet:
The Seeker, internet sleuth
Rowan Jacobsen, journalist
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The reporter places himself at the centre of this show. He is more interested in telling a story, with trendy dramatic mood music, than in presenting the evidence calmly and allowing us to draw our own conclusions
It must be very inconvenient to speak truth against academic establishment and the media
“In life there are no coincidences.”
Brilliant important podcast exploring the origin of covid. Worth the listen
An objective series that puts together facts without the narrative that is so common in just about all mainstream media today. Please keep up the fantastic work on this podcast.
Really informative and balanced presentation
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