/oss/taxonomy/term/4761/all en /oss/article/covid-19-pseudoscience/patently-false-disinformation-over-coronavirus-patents <p>Since the pandemic started, some public figures with a pronounced distrust of authority have gone on a patent hunt. We have seen Mike Adams, the <i>Plandemic </i>conspiracy film, and a recent French video viewed by nearly 1.5 million people claim that a trail of patent applications prove that scientists created the COVID-19 coronavirus in a laboratory. They also apparently decided to protect their intellectual property along the way.</p> Fri, 28 Aug 2020 13:24:26 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 8386 at /oss