Say, remember when the government and the media treated the lab-leak hypothesis of COVID-19’s origin as a conspiracy theory? At the time, social-media platforms suppressed discussion and debate over that explanation. The media treating anyone who noticed that a deadly and novel coronavirus had emerged in the same place where biologists just so happened to be conducting gain-of-function research on —ta da! — coronaviruses.
The question of origin became so important to foreign policy and epidemiological strategy that Joe Biden ordered the US intel community to do an analysis to pin down the origins of the deadly pandemic. That review concluded with “low confidence'” that it originated in a jump from an animal to humans in Wuhan. But that conclusion came after a scientific study conducted by one of those agencies was never presented to Biden — a study that…
