An appeal for an objective, open, and transparent scientific debate about the origin of SARS-CoV-2

Affiliations

• ¹ Lab Theory and Approaches of Genome Complexity, INSERM, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France. Electronic address: jacques.van-helden@univ-amu.fr.
• ² National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
• ³ Université de Paris, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Collège de France, Paris, France.
• ⁴ Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France.
• ⁵ Université de Paris, CNRS, Laboratoire Evolution, Génomes, Comportement, Ecologie, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
• ⁶ Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France.
• ⁷ Université Bordeaux Montaigne, MICA, Pessac, France.
• ⁸ Ecole Polytechnique, Université de Paris, CNRS, Institut Jacques Monod, Paris, France.
• ⁹ Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Waksman Institute, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA.
• ¹⁰ MSC, Université de Paris, CNRS UMR 7057, Paris, France.
• ¹¹ School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
• ¹² Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, CNRS, Montpellier University, Montpellier, France.
• ¹³ College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
• ¹⁴ University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
• ¹⁵ LIED, CNRS UMR 8236, Université de Paris, Paris, France.