Many will be exploring why the scientific evidence of a lab leak was so slow to emerge from intelligence agencies. For years, the media and government allied to treat anyone raising a lab theory as one of three possibilities: conspiracy theorist or racists or racist conspiracy theorists. She tweeted wistfully “someday we will stop talking about the lab leak theory and maybe even admit its racist roots. No reference to the lab theory was to be tolerated. On the lab theory, media like the Washington Post piled on senators like Cruz and Cotton for mentioning the lab theory only later to admit that it could be legitimate.

Source: Washington Post February 28, 2023 05:44 UTC