The emails of a prominent Scottish scientist who dismissed fears that Covid came from a Chinese laboratory are being kept secret over concerns for his safety.
The University of Edinburgh has refused to release the correspondence of Andrew Rambaut, a globally renowned virologist, about the source of the pandemic.
The institution has been barraged with requests under the Freedom of Information Act for Rambaut’s exchanges with other academics, including the head of America’s response to the disease, Anthony Fauci.
Its freedom of information (FoI) battle stems from feverish politics in the United States around an early 2020 paper in the journal Nature authored by Rambaut and other experts on the “proximal origin” of Covid.
