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Was the possibility that COVID originated in a lab suppressed and silenced?
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June 4th, 2021
“On February 19, 2020, The Lancet, among the most respected and influential medical journals in the world, published a statement that roundly rejected the lab-leak hypothesis, effectively casting it as a xenophobic cousin to climate change denialism and anti-vaxxism. Signed by 27 scientists, the statement expressed “solidarity with all scientists and health professionals in China” and asserted: “We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin.”
The Lancet statement effectively ended the debate over COVID-19’s origins before it began. To Gilles Demaneuf, following along from the sidelines, it was as if it had been “nailed to the church doors,” establishing the natural origin theory as orthodoxy. “Everyone had to follow it. Everyone was intimidated. That set the tone.””
I’m no conspiracy theorist, but I find it interesting that the dominant narrative was set so early before we knew much about the virus and its origins. And I’ve never been a fan of “narrative over facts”. Do you think COVID originated in a lab? Does it even matter? If it did, who was covering it up and why?
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