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Back in Feb. 2020, The Lancet, an influential medical journal, published a letter dismissing the possibility of a lab leak being the origin of Coronavirus Disease 2019 ( COVID-19 ). Signed by 27 public health experts, the letter condemned “conspiracy theories” suggesting that the SARS-CoV-2 virus “does not have a natural origin.” Over 18 months later, the journal published another letter asking readers to keep an open mind about the potential lab origin of COVID-19. The letter, published on Sept. 17 and signed by 16 experts, blamed the Feb. 2020 letter for having a “silencing effect on the wider scientific...
