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

The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie

CHAPTER

The Disconnect Between the Public and the Scientific Establishment

When you first started talking about this, it was the type of view that could get people kicked off of social media or at the very least got a lot of social approval. Do you take any satisfaction in kind of seeing people say like, oh, this is maybe really what we should be investigating? Over the course of my career, I've tried to persuade the public of a number of things. And I've rarely been successful in shifting public opinion in my direction. This one is a, some people probably more believe in evolution now than they did before you started writing.

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