The lab leak deception

Public officials concealed their conflicts of interest and role in funding research that may have caused the pandemic, says health reporter Emily Kopp. Chapters 0:00 Intro: What Did The Know, and What Weren t They Saying 5:53 Proximal Origins: The Paper that Changed Everything 15:56 Ecohealth Alliance: The NIHWuhan Lab Connection 21:37 Changing Political Winds, Truth and Accountability 26:38 Will GainofFunction Research Ever Be Stopped Journalists and scientists routinely dismissed the lab leak hypothesis as a crackpot theory and even as racist, up until the summer of 2021 when science journalist Nicholas Wade published an influential article, and a viral rant by Jon Stewart pushed it into the mainstream. Until that point, social media platforms had been removing or throttling posts that took it seriously. Anthony Fauci, who didn t respond to our interview request, said it