Academics who publicly dismissed claims COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese laboratory despite privately expressing doubt will eventually face criminal prosecution for fraud, an award-winning US molecular biologist says.
The origins of the virus have been hotly debated for years; with the three main theories being wet market transmission, a bioweapon program and a lab leak.
The paper, titled the Proximal Origins of SARS-CoV-2, soon became the official word on the origins of the virus. He noted the arguments over the origins of the pandemic were “moving out of the scientific community arena, into the congressional arena, and ultimately it will move into the judicial arena”.
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