Authored by Stephen L. Miller via Spectator.us (emphasis ours),
The theory that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese laboratory has completed its year-long trudge from fringe nutjob idea to mainstream and expert-approved opinion.
Right all along? Sen. Tom Cotton was denounced as a conspiracy theorist last year for suggesting that SARS-CoV-2 might have emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (Getty)
Leading scientists and epidemiologists such as none other than Dr Anthony Fauci were so quick to dismiss the lab talk . It was first portrayed as a hare-brained wild and tacitly racist conspiracy theory driven by paranoid Republican senators and fever-dream right-wing media. Now it is seen as not only an acceptable theory worth more study, but one that has broken throug .