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Claim: Japanese Nobel laureate Dr. Tasuku Honjo said the new coronavirus was engineered in a Chinese laboratory (Viral Post, 2020-04-26)
Evidence (2022-10-04): There is no evidence that Tasuku Honjo, the 2018 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, said coronavirus was man-made in a lab in Wuhan, China. In late April 2020, a message spread through Facebook and WhatsApp purporting to be the words of Professor Tasuku Honjo. In it, Honjo allegedly says that coronavirus is "not natural." The post also alleges that Honjo worked in a lab in Wuhan for four years. The post then says that Honjo has been unable to contact his colleagues from his time in Wuhan for the past three months. [...] The Facebook Post Claims Honjo Said: ‘Coronavirus Did Not Come From Bats. China Manufactured it.’ [...] Based on all my knowledge and research till date, I can say this with 100% confidence – That the Coronavirus is not natural. It did not come from bats. China manufactured it. If what I am saying today is proved false now or even after my death, the government can withdraw my Nobel Prize. China is lying and this truth will one day be revealed to everyone.
Claim: Japanese Nobel laureate Dr. Tasuku Honjo said the new coronavirus was engineered in a Chinese laboratory (Viral Post, 2020-04-26)
Evidence (2020-04-27): A viral message on social media claims that ‘Japan's professor of Physiology or Medicine’, Professor Dr Tasuku Honjo, while addressing the media said that coronavirus is "not natural and that China has manufactured it". [...] In an email interaction with The Quint, Kumar said "The news circulating regarding 'Prof Honjo's claim that coronavirus is man-made' is FAKE NEWS. Prof Honjo never gave any such statement. Each and every sentence of this post is completely false and has no connection with truth. Prof Honjo never worked in Wuhan laboratory. He never called there. He did not work on virus origin and functions and other related issues. All the contents are just concocted and nothing else. (sic)" Regarding Professor Tasuku Honjo’s recent media interaction, we found an article published by The Japan Times on 23 April that mentioned that the nobel laureate in a television program on 16 April said that Japan needs to increase PCR tests in order to detect coronavirus infections and and categorise the cases on the basis of seriousness of symptoms.
Claim: Japanese Nobel laureate Dr. Tasuku Honjo said the new coronavirus was engineered in a Chinese laboratory (Viral Post, 2020-04-26)
Evidence (2020-04-28): Nobel Laureate and Distinguished Professor Tasuku Honjo of the Kyoto University Institute of Advanced Study on Monday released an official statement through the university refuting claims to have alleged that the coronavirus was man made. A false quote citing Honjo has been making rounds on social media platforms such as WhatsApp. The forward states that Honjo had previously worked with a laboratory in China and that he had said that the virus was not natural. [...] The text message that has gone viral on WhatsApp claiming that Japan’s Nobel Prize-winning immunologist Tasuku Honjo had said that coronavirus is "manufactured by China" and ends with a link to Honjo’s Wikipedia page.
Claim: Japanese Nobel laureate Dr. Tasuku Honjo said the new coronavirus was engineered in a Chinese laboratory (Viral Post, 2020-04-26)
Evidence (2022-03-17): A Facebook (FB) post quoting Nobel Prize winner and esteemed Japanese immunologist Tasuku Honjo as saying that the virus behind COVID-19 is "completely artificial" and was manufactured in China, is a sham. [...] The fabricated post also claimed Honjo worked four years in a laboratory in Wuhan, China, where cases of COVID-19 first emerged. However, his profile on the Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine website shows no such record. The fake post surfaced on public social media pages about a week after another Nobel prize winner, French virologist Luc Montagnier, claimed April 17 in a media interview that the novel coronavirus was "created in a laboratory." The same day, the office of French president Emmanuel Macron said there is no evidence so far of a link between a Wuhan laboratory and the origins of COVID-19.
Claim: Japanese Nobel laureate Dr. Tasuku Honjo said the new coronavirus was engineered in a Chinese laboratory (Viral Post, 2020-04-26)
Evidence (2024-07-16): Tasuku Honjo (本庶 佑, Honjo Tasuku, born January 27, 1942)[2] is a Japanese physician-scientist and immunologist. He won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and is best known for his identification of programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1).[3] He is also known for his molecular identification of cytokines: IL-4 and IL-5,[4] as well as the discovery of activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) that is essential for class switch recombination and somatic hypermutation.[5] [...] COVID-19 pandemic [edit]During the COVID-19 pandemic, a disputed claim that Honjo believed that the novel coronavirus had been "manufactured" by a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan was widely disseminated on the internet in many languages.[11] The BBC Reality Check team reported that, "In a statement published on the website of Kyoto University, he said he was 'greatly saddened' that his name had been used to spread 'false accusations and misinformation'.[11]
Claim: Japanese Nobel laureate Dr. Tasuku Honjo said the new coronavirus was engineered in a Chinese laboratory (Viral Post, 2020-04-26)
Evidence (2024-01-01): Transcript from an interview with Tasuku Honjo [...] Tasuku Honjo: There are several levels. As general science the first incident I was enchanted or charmed by the natural science is the very tiny tiny ring around the Saturn which I watched through the telescope at the elementary school. That was the first. I got very much interested, I wanted to be an astronomer and I read many books. But then later switched to medicine because I read the biography of Hideyo Noguchi. And the second very critical moment, maybe the time to come back to Japan, so it was another big choice in my life whether I stay in United Stated, keep going and many people advised to stay, but I decide to go back to Japan. That was -74, another type of turning point. Both cases I was fortunate that my decision was correct or correct because I made something, retrospective. [...] Tasuku Honjo: For my science I have so many important mentors or advisors. The first mentor was Osamu Hayaishi, who discovered oxygen, gas oxygen directing cooperation into the organic compounds, gave my solid background in science and also international theory. Science has to be international, it is not a local thing. And the next person who opened my eye to the molecular immunology is Donald Brown of Carnegie Institution of Washington. Without him I never go into this particular field and then I went to Philip Leder’s laboratory where I actually started this antibody diversification. So those three are very important during my scientific career.
Claim: Japanese Nobel laureate Dr. Tasuku Honjo said the new coronavirus was engineered in a Chinese laboratory (Viral Post, 2020-04-26)
Evidence (2021-04-30): CLAIM: Nobel prize winner Dr. Tasuku Honjo said that the coronavirus is not natural and is completely artificial. [...] THE FACTS: Posts with the fabricated quote were shared thousands of times on Facebook and WhatsApp in English and Spanish. The claims suggested that Dr. Honjo’s words had "caused a sensation" by saying that the new coronavirus is not natural. [...] The theory that COVID-19 was created in a laboratory has been circulating on social media for months. However, scientists from around the world have carried out various analyses that have concluded that it is of animal origin.
Claim: Japanese Nobel laureate Dr. Tasuku Honjo said the new coronavirus was engineered in a Chinese laboratory (Viral Post, 2020-04-26)
Evidence (2020-05-07): Many readers have asked us about comments supposedly made by Nobel laureate Tasuku Honjo. We begin today's edition by setting the record straight on Professor Honjo's stance on the source of the novel coronavirus. [...] No, Nobel Prize winner Tasuku Honjo did not say the coronavirus is 'not natural' Social media posts claiming that Nobel laureate Tasuku Honjo said the novel coronavirus was "not natural" and "manufactured in China" are false, according to fact checkers at AAP, AFP and Snopes.
Claim: Japanese Nobel laureate Dr. Tasuku Honjo said the new coronavirus was engineered in a Chinese laboratory (Viral Post, 2020-04-26)
Evidence (2020-04-30): Professor Dr Tasuku Honjo, caused a sensation today in the media by saying that the corona virus is not natural. [...] Various posts on Facebook claim that the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Professor Tasuku Honjo has said that coronavirus is "not natural". The claim was also shared on Twitter, including by Lord Sugar. [...] The false posts also claim incorrectly that Professor Honjo worked in the "Wuhan laboratory in China" for four years. Professor Honjo is currently the Deputy Director-General and Distinguished Professor at the Kyoto University Institute for Advanced Study (KUIAS). His biography on the KUIAS website shows no evidence that he spent four years teaching in Wuhan or China.
Claim: Japanese Nobel laureate Dr. Tasuku Honjo said the new coronavirus was engineered in a Chinese laboratory (Viral Post, 2020-04-26)
Evidence (2022-08-30): "Based on all my knowledge and research till date, I can say this with 100% confidence - That the Coronavirus is not natural. It did not come from bats. China manufactured it," the post quotes Honjo as saying. [...] The Facebook post claims Honjo worked in a laboratory in Wuhan, the Chinese city where the coronavirus outbreak was first identified. He didn’t. He has mainly worked at Japanese universities such as Osaka University and Kyoto University, where he is currently deputy director-general and distinguished professor. [...] Nobel laureate Prof Tasuku Honjo did not say that Covid-19 was an unnatural virus manufactured in China. – Naledi Mashishi
Claim: Japanese Nobel laureate Dr. Tasuku Honjo said the new coronavirus was engineered in a Chinese laboratory (Viral Post, 2020-04-26)
Evidence (2020-04-30): Nobel laureate Tasuku Honjo refuted stories circulating online originating outside Japan that he said the new coronavirus was "made in China." "I am greatly saddened that my name and that of Kyoto University have been used to spread false accusations and misinformation," said Honjo, 78, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2018, in a statement posted April 27 in English on the university's website. Stories alleging that Honjo "used to work at a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan for four years" and that he said "the new coronavirus was artificially made in China" have gone viral in several languages, including English and Hindi, mainly on social media.
Claim: Japanese Nobel laureate Dr. Tasuku Honjo said the new coronavirus was engineered in a Chinese laboratory (Viral Post, 2020-04-26)
Evidence (2020-04-29): Nobel Prize-winner Montagnier truly said that COVID-19 was created in a lab by researchers who were attempting to make an AIDS vaccine. However, that doesn't mean what he said was accurate. In fact, a peer-reviewed study from the Scripps Research Institute that was published in the journal Nature in March 2020 found "no evidence that the virus was made in a laboratory or otherwise engineered." [...] No matter where you go online these days, there’s bound to be discussion of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Some folks are even making outrageous claims that the new coronavirus causing the pandemic was engineered in a lab and deliberately released to make people sick. A new study debunks such claims by providing scientific evidence that this novel coronavirus arose naturally. [...] This isn't the first time we've been asked about comments a Nobel Prize winner supposedly made about the coronavirus. Another Nobel laureate, Tasuku Honjo, was also rumored to have said that COVID-19 was "man-made." While the scientific community disputed the accuracy of Montagnier's comments, Honjo's alleged comment was dismissed because he simply didn't say it. That quote was entirely fictional.
Claim: Japanese Nobel laureate Dr. Tasuku Honjo said the new coronavirus was engineered in a Chinese laboratory (Viral Post, 2020-04-26)
Evidence (2023-01-14): Explanation: No reputable news sources have reported what would be a controversial quote from a Nobel prize-winning scientist. On 27 April Honjo, through Kyoto University, released an official statement refuting the claim. He also warned against sharing unproven claims about the virus.
Claim: Japanese Nobel laureate Dr. Tasuku Honjo said the new coronavirus was engineered in a Chinese laboratory (Viral Post, 2020-04-26)
Evidence (2020-04-27): News of Nobel-laureate Japanese professor Dr Tasuku Honjo saying that COVID-19 is not natural, but man-made is doing rounds in the social media. But here is why it is a fake news and here are details stating that Dr. Honjo never made that statement. [...] After messages that the coronavirus was made in a Wuhan lab claiming it was a statement from Prof. Tasuku Honjo started making rounds, the Twitter handle @TasukuHonjo stated: "I want to make you sure that fake news is being spread in India. I have not said anything about Wuhan(China) Laboratory on #coronavirus." [...] Another claim was made under Tasuku Honjo's name was that he had worked in the Wuhan lab for four years. But reports claim that the Nobel laureate professor has been teaching full-time at Kyoto University from 1984 to 2005. His current profile states that he is a professor at the Department of Immunology and Genomic Medicine at Kyoto University. He has never worked in the Wuhan Lab, states his biography.
Claim: Japanese Nobel laureate Dr. Tasuku Honjo said the new coronavirus was engineered in a Chinese laboratory (Viral Post, 2020-04-26)
Evidence (2020-04-28): A post is being widely shared on social media platforms stating that Japan’s Nobel Prize winning Professor of Medicine, Professor Dr. Tasuku Honjo has claimed that the Coronavirus is not natural and that China manufactured it. Let’s check the authenticity of the claims made in these posts. [...] During our research, it is found that, in an interview with a French news channel a few days ago, another Nobel laureate Luc Montagnier had claimed that the coronavirus was manufactured in a laboratory in China’s Wuhan. Montagnier had won the 2008 Nobel Prize for Medicine along with Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Harald zur Hausen for the discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). An official at France President Emmanuel Macron’s office has refuted these claims and clarified that there is no factual evidence so far of a link between the Covid-19 outbreak and the work of the P4 research laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan. [...] To sum it up, Nobel laureate Tasuku Honjo hasn’t claimed that ‘coronavirus is not natural and that China manufactured it’. The message widely being circulated on his name is fake.
Claim: Japanese Nobel laureate Dr. Tasuku Honjo said the new coronavirus was engineered in a Chinese laboratory (Viral Post, 2020-04-26)
Evidence (2020-12-31): - 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.
Claim: Japanese Nobel laureate Dr. Tasuku Honjo said the new coronavirus was engineered in a Chinese laboratory (Viral Post, 2020-04-26)
Evidence (2024-10-07): List of Japanese Nobel laureates and nominees Since 1949, there have been 29 Japanese laureates of the Nobel Prize. The Nobel Prize is a Sweden-based international monetary prize. The award was established by the 1895 will and estate of Swedish chemist and inventor Alfred Nobel. It was first awarded in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace in 1901. An associated prize, thus far, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, also sometimes known as the Nobel Prize in Economics, has yet to be awarded to a Japanese national.
Claim: Japanese Nobel laureate Dr. Tasuku Honjo said the new coronavirus was engineered in a Chinese laboratory (Viral Post, 2020-04-26)
Evidence (2022-08-29): The past few years saw the coronavirus ravaging the world, resulting in a staggering and tragic number of deaths. Fortunately, drugs such as Actemra and an anti-interleukin-1biologic called Anakinra, the former developed by Dr. Tadamitsu Kishimoto and the later by Dr. Charles Dinarello, both the 2020 Tang Prize laureates in Biopharmaceutical Science, have been approved by America’s Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) to treat COVID-19. A CRISPR-based Sars-Cov-2 rapid test kit developed in the lab of Dr. Feng Zhang, recipient of the 2016 Tang Prize in Biopharmaceutical Science, has also been given the green light by the US FDA and EMA two years ago for general use.
Claim: Japanese Nobel laureate Dr. Tasuku Honjo said the new coronavirus was engineered in a Chinese laboratory (Viral Post, 2020-04-26)
Evidence (2023-09-30): The third pattern does not use a quotation but the name of an influential expert, embedding it in a fake story. This can be illustrated with a virally shared story about the Japanese scientist-immunologist, the Nobel Prize winner in physiology or medicine Tasuku Honjo, who was turned into one of the major ideologists of Covid-19 dissidence in Russia by fake story makers in April 2020 (5). According to a text widely shared on Russian social media, Honjo allegedly states that Covid-19 is an artificial virus that leaked from a Chinese laboratory. This false statement, which the scientist never made, exists in several variations with minor transformations. This example also demonstrates another distinguishing feature of fake materials which is frequent use of the first-person pronouns.
Claim: Japanese Nobel laureate Dr. Tasuku Honjo said the new coronavirus was engineered in a Chinese laboratory (Viral Post, 2020-04-26)
Evidence (2018-10-03): That’s right, the prize went to Tasuku Honjo from Kyoto University in Japan and James Allison from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, and both of them are pioneers in immunotherapy.
Claim: Japanese Nobel laureate Dr. Tasuku Honjo said the new coronavirus was engineered in a Chinese laboratory (Viral Post, 2020-04-26)
Evidence (2020-07-31): Controversial claims over the coronavirus’ origin have proliferated on the internet. Here, we examine the scientific evidence that supports its natural origins. Nobel Laureate Tasuku Honjo Refutes Link To ‘Man-Made’ Coronavirus Claim 2018 Nobel laureate Tasuku Honjo has refuted any link to social media posts that claim the SARS-CoV-2 virus was 'man-made' or 'invented' in a lab. Tasuku Honjo Wins 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Claim: Claims Charles Darwin said, "In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment." (Viral Quote, 2019-04-14)
Evidence (2019-04-14): There is no evidence that the quotation comes from Darwin.
Claim: Claims Charles Darwin said, "In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment." (Viral Quote, 2019-04-14)
Evidence (2014-12-19): Here is an example of a Darwin ascription in "The Guardian" newspaper in 2006. Please note that instances on the QI website are meant to be illustrative and not meant to be harshly critical of writers and journalists who may have slipped:[4]2006 December 11, News source: The Guardian, Article title: The Weekends TV: Pop stars, buildings, now endangered species . . . is nothing safe from the phone vote format? Article author: Sam … Continue reading ‘In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment’. The Origin of Species, Charles DarwinHaving now seen the first part of Extinct (ITV1, Saturday), I think I get what Darwin was on about. But perhaps if he was around now, and just coming up with his theory, he may have worded it slightly differently. "In the struggle for survival, the cutest win out at the expense of the less cute because they appeal more to celebrities and, through them, to a live television audience." [...] Charles Darwin (1809-1882), the famous English naturalist who first formulated the concept of evolution, wrote in his history-making Origin of the Species: "In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment."
Claim: Claims Charles Darwin said, "In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment." (Viral Quote, 2019-04-14)
Evidence (2019-03-06): (1809 – 1882) Developed theory of evolution against a backdrop of disbelief and scepticism. Collected evidence over 20 years, and published conclusions in On the Origin of Species (1859). [...] "I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection" [...] "The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient"
Claim: Claims Charles Darwin said, "In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment." (Viral Quote, 2019-04-14)
Evidence (2024-08-13): [edit]- All quotes from The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882. With the Original Omissions Restored. (1958) Edited and with appendix and notes by his grand-daughter Nora Barlow. [...] - Claimed by the evangelist Lady Hope; Reported in Boller, Paul F., Jr.; George, John (1989). They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 19. LCC PN6081.B635 1989. Darwin's daughter Henrietta refuted the claim, stating "I was present at his deathbed. Lady Hope was not present during his last illness, or any illness. I believe he never even saw her, but in any case she had no influence over him in any department of thought or belief. He never recanted any of his scientific views, either then or earlier. We think the story of his conversion was fabricated in the U.S.A. The whole story has no foundation whatever." [...] - Falsely attributed to Darwin, but actually from The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan (1905) by Thomas Dixon, page 134.
Claim: Claims Charles Darwin said, "In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment." (Viral Quote, 2019-04-14)
Evidence (2020-12-26): Category Archives: Charles Darwin [...] History Textbook? Anonymous? Dear Quote Investigator: While reading a newspaper article I saw the following statement attributed to the famous scientist Charles Darwin: In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment. The article cited "On the … [...] Leon C. Megginson? Clarence Darrow? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: The following statement is often attributed to the famous scientist Charles Darwin, but I am skeptical: It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change. Shortened …