(McNeil controversially left
The New York Times in February after it was revealed he had offended some schoolchildren during a Peru field trip, including by using the n-word during a discussion about racism in America.)
âThe lab leak theory sounds less crazy than it did before and China is certainly acting like they have something to hide,â McNeil says.
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McNeil is far from alone. The lab leak theory, regarded as fringe just a few months ago, has rapidly become mainstream in the United States.
Many proponents of this theory reject the more lurid hypothesis that the virus was deliberately released by the Chinese government after it was manufactured for bio-warfare.
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ORIGIN STORY The hypothesis that Covid-19 was leaked from a Wuhan lab has leaped from its original host Trump administration officials and people dismissed as conspiracy theorists into the body of mainstream debate. Last week, 18 leading scientists published a letter in the academic journal Science calling for further investigation to determine the origin of the pandemic that has killed 3.4 million people worldwide. “Theories of accidental release from a lab and zoonotic spillover both remain viable,” the scientists wrote.