Covid origins: did German scientists deliberately confuse the public?

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It would be the conspiracy of the century if it were true…

A group of acclaimed scientists, so eager to prevent the next pandemic, have been caught out by their own research. Controversial experiments resulted in an accident: a virus perfectly adapted to humans leaked out of a high security laboratory and swept across the globe.

Compounding the damage, scientists linked to the research have used their influence to mislead the public ever since.

This is the claim made by Roland Wiesendanger, a physicist at Hamburg University, who spent a year looking into the origins of the pandemic and published his results last month. He concluded that it was likely that the virus leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan.

Prof. Dr. Roland Wiesendanger © https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Alastor2001&action=edit&redlink=1

Needless to say, the publication caused a storm. The tabloid Bild splashed it across two pages of print, while the broadsheets lambasted Dr. Wiesendanger for entwining himself …