WaPo Editorial Board Calls For Investigation Into Chinese Lab Theory After Dismissing It As ‘Conspiracy Theory’
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The Washington Post’s editorial board is calling for an investigation into the theory that COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese lab after the paper spent time dismissing it as a “conspiracy theory.”
The media, scientists and public health experts spent months dismissing the notion that COVID-19 originally came from lab in Wuhan, China. A lengthy investigative essay from New York Magazine’s Intelligencer, however, seems to be changing people’s minds. The piece describes multiple surprising discoveries that push back on the “conspiracy theory” assertion.
The Post, for one, seems to have taken notice, with its editorial board declaring on Sunday evening that “we can’t discover the pandemic’s origins if China’s thought police keep watching scientists.”
“But the possibility of a laboratory accident or inadvertent leak having caused the coronavirus outbreak must not be ignored,” The Post’s editorial board wrote.
“A credible investigation of how the pandemic began will require China to be completely open and transparent, including about the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” the board added. “The presence of China’s thought police overseeing scientific inquiry does not bode well.”
“A credible investigation of how the pandemic began will require China to be completely open and transparent, including about the Wuhan Institute of Virology.” https://t.co/08Ga4tM7kV by the @PostOpinions Editorial Board
This declaration is a far cry from The Post’s past reporting on COVID-19, as the paper spent considerable effort dismissing the lab theory. In February, The Post confidently wrote that Republican Arkansas Sen. “Tom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus conspiracy theory that was already debunked.”
The Post called it “a fringe theory” and noted that Cotton admitted to a lack of evidence supporting his comments. Cotton, the paper asserted, “suggested it’s necessary to ask Chinese authorities about the... (Read more)
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