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Another mea culpa in the works?

Another mea culpa in the works?

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May 28, 2021
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Dear reader,

It has been interesting to see how the broadsheet media have shifted their reporting on the origins of the pandemic in recent days. For over a year they have been parroting the views of a small group of scientists who loudly rubbish the idea that it escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan.

As we wrote in early March, anyone who takes an dispassionate look at the facts can see quite clearly that the ‘lab leak’ hypothesis is anything but a conspiracy theory. It is a real possibility. Furthermore, the scientists who want us to believe otherwise (in Germany their most prominent member is Christian Drosten) have conflicts of interest that they don’t declare, and which journalists either haven’t properly looked into or choose not to mention.

Read our article on the pandemic’s origins here

Despite the fact that no new evidence has emerged in recent weeks, the lab hypothesis is suddenly making headlines in the New York Times and just about every other US media outlet. The main change is t…

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