Former New York Times science writer Nicholas Wade recently testified in a House Oversight Committee hearing investigating the origin of Covid-19. Just two years ago, such a hearing would have been inconceivable. Back then, public health officials, leading scientists, and major media outlets were almost unanimous in the view that there was just one credible explanation for the pandemic: It had spilled over from some wild animal sold in a wet market in Wuhan, China. Suggestions that it might have escaped from a nearby research laboratory were dismissed as a racist right-wing fantasy. Wade was one of a handful of journalists who took the lab-leak question seriously early on.
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James B. Meigs is cohost of the How Do We Fix It? podcast and the former editor of Popular Mechanics.
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