high credibilityLancet Infectious Diseases2002
Origin of the 1918 pandemic influenza virus: a continuing enigma
Oxford JS, Gill D
thelancet.com
high credibilitySource scorecard — credibility, citation history, and editorial transparency for this domain.
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Theory pages
Cited-theory verdict breakdown
Debunked
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Partially True
8
Unproven
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Confirmed
2
Editorial transparency
Ownership / parent company
The Lancet has been owned by Elsevier since 1991, and its editor-in-chief since 1995 has been Richard Horton.
Accountability notes
The Lancet is a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal, founded in England in 1823.
Theory coverage
1918 Spanish flu origins / Camp Funston theoryMMR Vaccine-Autism LinkRFK Jr. anti-vaccine activism / Children's Health Defense (1998-present)Lancet Iraq mortality surveys: 2004 + 2006 casualty estimates suppressionDied Suddenly Documentary ClaimsIvermectin as COVID-19 CureCOVID lockdown effectiveness public-health debate (2020-present)Hydroxychloroquine COVID promotion and suppression (Mar-Jun 2020)COVID Vaccine Depopulation ClaimsDisease X World Government ClaimsWHO Pandemic Agreement Sovereignty ClaimsTurbo Cancer ClaimsCancer-Clinic Suppression ClaimsRaw Milk Cure ClaimsSeed-Oil Detox Cure ClaimsCDC mask-recommendation reversal (Feb-Apr 2020)Repatha and Statin Suppression ClaimsAutism False Causes and CuresBaxter International H5N1 vaccine contamination (Feb 2009)5G Health and COVID ClaimsVioxx cardiovascular concealment (Merck, 1999-2004)Fertility and Contraception Conspiracy ClaimsAlexei Navalny novichok poisoning (Aug 2020)AIDS DenialismBob Marley CIA cancer-injection claim (1981)The 2001 Anthrax Letters
high credibilityThe Lancet2010
Lancet Retraction: Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia
The Lancet Editors
high credibilityThe Lancet2010
Wakefield 1998 Lancet paper retraction notice
The Editors of The Lancet
high credibilityThe Lancet2004
Mortality before and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq (Roberts et al., Lancet 2004)
Les Roberts et al.
high credibilityThe Lancet2006
Mortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq (Burnham et al., Lancet 2006)
Gilbert Burnham et al.
high credibilityThe Lancet Infectious Diseases2022
Watson et al.: Global impact of COVID-19 vaccination (Lancet Infectious Diseases 2022)
Oliver Watson et al.
high credibilityLancet Respiratory Medicine2023
PRINCIPLE Trial: Ivermectin for Mild COVID-19
Hayward et al.
high credibilityThe Lancet2020
John Snow Memorandum — The Lancet (October 14 2020)
Sridhar; Greenhalgh et al.
high credibilityThe Lancet2020
Lancet HCQ observational study retraction (June 4 2020)
Mehra et al.
high credibilityThe Lancet Infectious Diseases2022
Watson et al.: Global impact of vaccines (Lancet Infectious Diseases 2022)
Oliver Watson et al.
high credibilityThe Lancet2018
The Lancet: Disease X and the R&D Blueprint (2018 overview)
WHO Blueprint Team
high credibilityThe Lancet2025
Lancet: The WHO Pandemic Agreement — analysis of final text
Various authors
high credibilityThe Lancet Oncology2022
Lancet Oncology: Deferred cancer diagnosis — pandemic impact analysis
Lancet Oncology
high credibilityThe Lancet Infectious Diseases2022
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Xiaofeng Xu et al.
high credibilityThe Lancet Oncology2022
Lancet Oncology: CAR-T cell therapy outcomes review
Various
high credibilityThe Lancet2002
PARSIFAL study: Farm environment and allergy protection (Lancet 2002)
Erika von Mutius et al.
high credibilityThe Lancet2024
Lancet: Ultra-processed food consumption and mortality — systematic review
Various authors
high credibilityThe Lancet2020
South Korea and Taiwan early mask adoption and pandemic outcomes
Various
high credibilityThe Lancet2010
CTT Collaboration: efficacy and safety of statin therapy (Lancet meta-analysis)
Baigent et al. / CTT Collaboration
high credibilityThe Lancet2010
The Lancet: Retraction of Wakefield paper
The Lancet Editors
high credibilityThe Lancet Infectious Diseases2009
BSL-3 containment failures: lessons from the Baxter incident
Various
high credibilityThe Lancet2020
Lancet: The need for information sharing on 5G misinformation and violence
Lancet Digital Health
high credibilityThe Lancet2004
The Vioxx disaster: lessons for drug safety
Richard Horton
high credibilityThe Lancet2020
Lancet: Japan HPV vaccine suspension impact analysis
Yagi et al.
high credibilityThe Lancet2018
Novichok nerve agents: chemistry and history — The Lancet
Various toxicologists
high credibilityThe Lancet2022
Lancet Commission on lessons from COVID-19 pandemic response
Sachs et al.
high credibilityThe Lancet2021
The Lancet: HIV causation overview
Various
high credibilityThe Lancet (historical)1980
Josef Issels clinic and alternative cancer treatment
Various
low credibilityThe Lancet1998
Wakefield et al.: Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia (The Lancet 1998 — RETRACTED)
Andrew Wakefield et al.
high credibilityThe Lancet2002
The Lancet: Cutaneous Anthrax Associated with the Bioterrorism-Related Cutaneous Anthrax Outbreak
Freedman et al.
high credibilityThe Lancet2022
Lancet: Vaccine Safety Datalink — cardiac outcomes surveillance
Lancet
high credibilityThe Lancet2006
Mortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: a cross-sectional cluster sample survey
Gilbert Burnham, Riyadh Lafta, Shannon Doocy, Les Roberts