Journalists Remain Less-Than-Truthful About COVID Origins

City Journal: The worldwide toll of deaths from Covid-19 has just hit 6 million. Few science stories are more important than understanding where the Covid virus came from. Yet the science writers’ section of the press corps has proved strangely incapable of telling the story straight…. No scientist wishes to get on the wrong side of NIH administrators, the major funders of biomedical research. If [Francis] Collins said the lab leak was a conspiracy theory, why then, so it must be…. Dulled by the advantages of this collusion, science writers pay little attention to in-house problems that seriously detract from the credibility of the scientific research enterprise (CityJournal).