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 NIH-Wuhan Lab Connection 21:37 Changing Political Winds, Truth and Accountability 26:38 Will Gain-of-Function 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

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