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A New York Times op-ed acknowledged that COVID-19 originated in a lab and that government officials and scientists conspired to conceal evidence. The lab leak theory was censored due to administration pressure.
In early 2020, speculation about a lab accident was dismissed as a conspiracy theory, with many insisting on animal origin at a Wuhan seafood market. A CIA cutout, Eco Health Alliance, lost a grant for risky bat virus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which 77 Nobel laureates defended.
The New York Times reports that officials and scientists hid facts, misled reporters, orchestrated campaigns, and concealed communications to promote a consensus. Safety precautions at the Wuhan lab were possibly lax.
An influential paper in Nature Medicine declared a lab origin implausible, but Slack conversations revealed that the authors privately considered it likely. Scientists and doctors, including Fauci, allegedly lied, and anyone who questioned them was labeled a racist. Peter Daszak of Eco Health Alliance was part of the WHO investigation, which found "nothing to see here."
Scientists, including Christian Andersen, privately acknowledged the lab escape as likely, while publicly stating otherwise. Jeremy Ferrar of the WHO used a burner phone and arranged meetings with scientists like Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci to promote the lie. Scientists decided to lie and mislead Donald McNeil Jr. of the New York Times.