The Inside Story Behind A Viral Origin Hunt

Outbreaks of new diseases are almost always shrouded in mystery. But rarely does an unanswered scientific question reach the peak of the attention economy and influence world matters. Suspicions about a research-related accident have since put the work and life of scientists involved in the search for the origin of COVID under pressure. There is a saying that one man’s crisis is another man’s opportunity… But who profits from keeping a scientifically unsubstantiated, but emotionally satisfying hypothesis alive?

LAB LEAK FEVER exposes a network of actors, activists, and agendas that work hard to sabotage ordinary scientific inquiry for self-serving gains. Abusing emotional rumors about a lab leak, scientific ignorance, engagement algorithms, and the trauma of a deadly pandemic, these chaos agents bring us along on a modern journey into the heart of darkness of our vulnerable information ecosystems.

From the start of the pandemic until today, the book chronicles not only the widening rift between science and society but illuminates how technology, media manipulators, and our human nature have made it impossible for ordinary citizens to discern between inconvenient reality and all-too-satisfying fictions.

“Well written and precise like a Swiss watch… an important historical document“

Dr. Peter Hotez, author of The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science