Before it scrutinized the Wuhan Institute of Virology, CBS News' '60 Minutes' declared the COVID lab-leak theory 'debunked' and hyping the credibility of Peter Daszak.
CBS News' "60 Minutes" dismissed the COVID lab-leak theory as "debunked" nearly a year before before taking the idea of a potential accident at the Wuhan lab seriously.attempted to set the record straight about the origins of COVID nearly a year after declaring the lab-leak theory"debunked."FBI Director Christopher Wray
The"60 Minutes" correspondent praised the work of EcoHealth-WIV at the time as being"critical right now." The"60 Minutes" correspondent pushed the notion that the virus stemmed from a wet market and turned to another expert who suggested that the virus came naturally from a pangolin. "Does the Wuhan Institute of Virology, to your knowledge, have this virus in its inventory?" Pelley asked.
CREDIBILITY CRISIS: NPR INSISTED COVID ORIGINATED NATURALLY BY DISMISSING LAB LEAK THEORY AS NONSENSE"Well, what else can we do?" Daszak pushed back."There's a limit to what you can do, and we went right up to that limit. We asked them tough questions. They weren't vetted in advance and the answers they gave we found to be believable, correct and convincing."
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