Nicholas Wade is a leading science writer, who should be credited with being one of the first mainstream science writers to objectively, and with balance, put the case for the lab origin of SARS-CoV-2, which he evaluated in the context of the then prevailing animal origin hypothesis. He has some more recent material elaborating on this case. But what he deals with in even more penetrating detail is the lack of objectivity and balance in most science writers in this field, who may have held to the lab origin hypothesis in private, but proclaimed it as a conspiracy that would damage China, in public. What this campaign did was obscure and create a smoke screen in the early period, making the search for the origin of Covid, a cold case. Still, as I see it, in the end, the truth may out, and many will need to be taken to court, some to jail.
https://www.city-journal.org/why-science-writers-do-not-report-objectively-on-covids-origins
