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 ...