National Public Radio science desk correspondent Rob Stein is about five years behind on COVID origin speculation, still taking the politically correct side, that it’s beyond the pale to accuse China of letting the COVID virus leak from a government laboratory, and that the alternate theory, that COVID spread naturally from animals to humans, is unassailable: “‘Lab Leak,’ a flashy page on the virus’ origins, replaces government COVID sites.”
NPR’s previous coverage looks so embarrassing now, in its arrogant certitude, that the White House encapsulated NPR’s greatest COVID misses into a press release, in a paragraph introduced “NPR repeatedly dismissed the theory that COVID-19 originated in a lab — a conclusion now deemed likely by the FBI, CIA, and Department of Energy.”
The White House’s first example of NPR getting COVID wrong…
