I was duped by the Covid lab leak deniers

Matt Ridley:

That senior scientists saw evidence for theories that they trashed in public has shattered trust in science

Inch by painful inch, the truth is being dragged out about how this pandemic started. It is just about understandable, if not forgivable, that Chinese scientists have obfuscated vital information about early cases and their work with similar viruses in Wuhan’s laboratories: they were subject to fierce edicts from a ruthless, totalitarian regime….