I thought the lab hypothesis was debunked based on many articles I’ve seen over the months, but here are two people I respect (based upon their Darkhorse Podcast), Brett Weinstein and Heather Heying, suggesting that the lab hypothesis needs to be rigorously investigated because they’ve noticed more than a few red flags. They further argue that until now, the lab hypothesis has been debunked based on social stigma rather than scientific investigation.
Heying’s comment “That’s not how science works” is the fundamental principle that has been violated in “debunking” the lab hypothesis. Unethical and monumentally stupid people decided to politicize science. I can’t think of a better description of those who politicized COVID19. That hurt everyone working to contain the virus, find treatments, create vaccines, prevent recurrence. If someone from the “evil” side said something, it had to be corrected, debunked, mocked, but never actually studied.
I found it ironic that we now commonly refer to the U.K. or South African variant of a virus we named COVID19 because the language police insisted that following convention and calling it the Wuhan Coronavirus was xenophobic and racist.