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May 4, 2020 · May 4, 202012:25 PM PDTUpdated 4 years ago. Reuters Fact Check. REUTERS/Axel Schmidt Purchase Licensing Rights. A claim widely shared on social media states a Japanese Nobel laureate allegedly...
Apr 27, 2020 · Claim: Nobel laureate Dr. Tasuku Honjo said that COVID-19 was "man-made" at a lab in Wuhan, China. Rating: False. About this rating. Snopes is still fighting an “infodemic” of rumors and...
Apr 28, 2020 · By ABRIL MULATO. Published 2:00 PM PDT, April 28, 2020. CLAIM: Nobel prize winner Dr. Tasuku Honjo said that the coronavirus is not natural and is completely artificial. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The doctor denied that he made that statement circulating online.
Apr 28, 2020 · Apr 28, 2020 2:24 AM. 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.
Jun 19, 2020 · Dr. Tasuku Honjo, Japan’s professor of Physiology has debunked the viral claim calling it a false accusation.A viral message has been circulated on social media, claiming that Dr. Tasuku Honjo said that COVID-19 is not natural, but it is a man-made virus.
May 21, 2020 · Verdict: False. Honjo has not made comments to that effect, and he has called the claim “misinformation” in a statement. Fact Check: Honjo, a Kyoto University professor, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2018.
May 7, 2020 · 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.
