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The Conspiracy Ecosystem and the Lab Leak
If the pandemic did start from a lab in Wuhan, it is not just a Chinese government issue. Western virology feels worried that its entire research programme indeed might lose its funding if a major accident is revealed to have happened as a result of work in a laboratory. And over the last few years, we've seen again and again a lot of support within the US for exactly that type of dangerous virus research. There are genuine parallels with the lab leak online community. You can see it in the tactics that they use which are things like anomaly hunting or focusing on out of context snippets of emails.