evidence: - Nobel Laureate Tasuku Honjo Refutes Link To ‘Man-Made’ Coronavirus Claim As the coronavirus spread across the globe, so did something similarly insidious: misinformation on social media platforms. Posts surfaced claiming that Kyoto University’s Tasuku Honjo had said the SARS-CoV-2 virus was ‘man-made’ or ‘invented’ in a laboratory, leading the 2018 Nobel Laureate to issue a public refutation in April. [...] Controversial claims over the coronavirus’ origin have proliferated on the internet, but the verdict is in: ‘evidence’ for the engineered virus theory is flimsy and illogical. In this explainer, Asian Scientist Magazine debunks false claims one by one to show that the simplest explanation is likely the best one: the virus’ origins are natural.