Lab Leak: The Official Conspiracy Theory That Still Gets You Credit as a Free Thinker

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : Once again, the claims about the pandemics origin being a Chinese lab leak seem to come from Western spooks and anti-Communist zealots, not actual scientists.
55% : "Readers should be asking why so many in media find government talking points on a scientific question so newsworthy," we wrote, noting that "there is a vast amount of scientific research that points to Covid spreading to humans from other animal hosts.
49% : " The op-ed called not for a massive overhaul of scientific research into stopping the next pandemic, but for a domestic and international hunt for those responsible for such treachery, because the "Chinese Communist Party was permitted to bleach the crime scene."
43% : " Less than two years later, as Trump prepared for his second inauguration, the federal government reintroduced the specter of "lab leak" when the Republican-led House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released a report that offered "no new direct evidence of a lab leak," but instead, according to Science (12/3/24), offered a circumstantial case, including that the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) used NIAID money to conduct "gain-of-function" studies that modified distantly related coronaviruses.
24% : The Times and Journal's unquestioning acceptance of the lab leak hypothesis endorses it as the expense of scientific research that says otherwise, and assumes that China's government is guilty until proven innocent.

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