Font Size The New York Times finally updated its irresponsible reporting on an idea it notoriously “debunked” just two months ago – the possibility that the coronavirus really could have originated in a lab in Wuhan, China, as opposed to from a bat in a Wuhan “wet market." Much of the paper’s mockery focused on allegations by Li Meng Yan, a virologist from Hong Kong, who claimed the virus was a man-made Chinese bioweapon. The Times and the rest of the media mocked not only that theory, but also dismissed a less dramatic possibility -- that the coronavirus could have been studied in the Wuhan lab when it escaped.