BARCELONA, April 26 -- Leading medical journal The Lancet will decline a request to provide evidence for a U.S. Senate inquiry into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, its editor-in-chief Richard Horton told Reuters in an interview on Friday. "We have received a request to go and give evidence at a Senate inquiry, which we're not going to do," Horton told Reuters at the Reuters Pharma event in Barcelona. Horton said that the journal would not engage "with an administration that has attacked some of the foremost scientists of our age", citing the treatment by Donald Trump's administration of a former top U.S. health official, Anthony Fauci. Horton wrote in February that the Lancet had been asked in December 2025 to provide all records relating to coronaviruses from 2018 to 2022, including emails, notes and studies. The journal Science was asked the same thing, according to a story on its website. Horton was referring to an inquiry by U.S. Senator Rand Paul....