“padding-left: 40px”>It’s encouraging that the conversation is opening up, but concerning that it has taken this long.
Had there been a lively, open scientific debate all along, the international community, including the WHO, may have felt emboldened to demand more from China: more data, more access, the truth. In the absence of such debate they’ve lacked the justification to do so.
But even though this past year has been a lost opportunity, there is still a great deal we can and must do to understand how this terrible pandemic began. For all we know, the next one is just around the corner. Shame on us if we aren’t doing everything humanly possible to prevent and prepare for that.
It's tempting to mutter something about how they're all coming out of the woodwork now that it's safe, these lab leak proponents….but where were they earlier on, when they were needed? I think it's more a case though of no media outlets being willing to publish this kind of thinking in the early days of the pandemic, after the Daszak letter in the Lancet and Trump's intervention. Now the mood's changed.
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