Few events in recent history have generated as much confusion, controversy, and misinformation as the COVID-19 pandemic. Five years on, the origins of COVID remain contested, and the lessons of how that debate played out carry hard implications for global health security for years to come.

Guest: Elizabeth Finkel. (Science journalist, Co-founder of Cosmos Magazine, and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at La Trobe University,) 

Prove It: A Scientific Guide for the Post-Truth Era, ;published by La Trobe University Press

Recorded on 29th June, 2026.

Few events in recent history have generated as much confusion, controversy, and misinformation as the COVID-19 pandemic.

Few events in recent history have generated as much confusion, controversy, and misinformation as the COVID-19 pandemic. Five years on, the origins of COVID remain contested, and the lessons of how that debate played out carry hard implications for global health security for years to come.

Guest: Elizabeth Finkel. (Science journalist, Co-founder of Cosmos Magazine, and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at La Trobe University,) 

Prove It: A Scientific Guide for the Post-Truth Era, ;published by La Trobe University Press

Recorded on 29th June, 2026.

Interview: Misinformation and the Origins of COVID-19

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