Some scientists have been nakedly partisan. I was dismayed by the claims in research articles by certain virologists that dismissed suggestions that the virus might have emerged due to a research-related accident. It turns out that they themselves thought a ‘lab-leak’ was a possibility, but wanted to suppress speculation because it might…
Some scientists have been nakedly partisan. I was dismayed by the claims in research articles by certain virologists that dismissed suggestions that the virus might have emerged due to a research-related accident. It turns out that they themselves thought a ‘lab-leak’ was a possibility, but wanted to suppress speculation because it might harm scientists and scientific research. Disgracefully, the scientists involved in this had undeclared conflicts of interest.
Some scientists have been nakedly partisan. I was dismayed by the claims in research articles by certain virologists that dismissed suggestions that the virus might have emerged due to a research-related accident. It turns out that they themselves thought a ‘lab-leak’ was a possibility, but wanted to suppress speculation because it might harm scientists and scientific research. Disgracefully, the scientists involved in this had undeclared conflicts of interest.