Opinion | Why Scientists Got the Covid Lab Leak Wrong

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Opinion | Why Scientists Got the Covid Lab Leak Wrong
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From WSJopinion: You don’t have to posit conspiracy theories to explain the rush by the science establishment to exclude a lab-leak explanation to Covid. You merely have to admit that scientists are human, writes Tim Trevan.

Journal Editorial Report: Paul Gigot interviews Dr. Marty Makary. Images: AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark KellyA journalist at Nature called me in 2017 with the news that China was opening a new Biosafety Level 4 laboratory in Wuhan, one designed to handle the most dangerous pathogens. He asked if I thought China should be allowed to have such a lab and whether it could operate it safely.

My skepticism looked prescient when news of Covid broke in 2020, setting off speculation about a leak from the Wuhan lab. Some were surprised that my initial response was that the virus probably didn’t come from the lab. Many prominent scientists and public-health officials said the same.

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