Contrary to the view portrayed in the media and by fact checkers, the majority of scientists believed in the lab leak hypothesis for the origins of Covid-19. However, they did so in private, while pushing the line in public that this was a conspiracy. But, in January 2022, US House Oversight Committee Republicans released National Institutes of Health (NIH) emails that showed Drs. Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins worked to bury the lab leak hypothesis.
Fauci and Collins participated in the creation of a Nature Medicine article that denied the possibility of a lab leak in Wuhan, arguing instead for a natural origin of the virus. The paper has been refuted, but it served its purpose at the time. This public focus upon the natural origin hypothesis allowed the CCP to cover up all tracks, so it will be difficult now to investigate, unless the CCP is destroyed in the coming World War III. The Wuhan flu would then be another war crime.
