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Matt Ridley: Why Did Anthony Fauci et al. Suppress the Lab Leak Theory?

The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie

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The Proximal Origins of SARS-CoV-2

The House Select Subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic has released a report into SARS-CoV-2. It claims that no lab-based scenario is plausible for how it came to be in humans. The committee also cites an influential paper by five scientists, which they say was not based on sound science but instead on assumptions. Matt Barwick says there are three main arguments against this theory and he's 'kicking himself' for being sceptical at first.

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