Nicolas Wade is the former NY Times science writer who has become a major proponent of the lab leak theory. Back in May 2021 he wrote a lengthy post on Medium in which he argued that the lab leak theory was plausible despite efforts to brand it a conspiracy theory. As Wade saw it at the time, the evidence for a lab leak was very strong if not conclusive.
Last month Wade returned with a piece in City Journal arguing that some newly released documents provided further evidence in support of a lab leak. Ed had the story in the headlines at the time. This week the Wall Street Journal published an opinion piece by Wade bringing that new evidence to a wider audience. His argument starts with something called project DEFUSE, an effort to identify dangerous SARS-like viruses which also included plans to manipulate them genetically.
In 2022 three biologists, Valentin Bruttel, Alex Washburne…
