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Comment by Judith Miller
Investigative journalist and City Journal contributing editor
A bioweapons expert likely to head the Trump administration’s top Pentagon post for countering weapons of mass destruction has charged in a new report that the Covid-19 pandemic was probably the result of a military-research-related accident in a Chinese laboratory, and that work at that lab may have been part of research China was conducting in possible violation of a treaty banning biological weapons.AI Verified (Jul 21, 2025)
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Directly relevant because the article states the pandemic was probably caused by a military-research-related lab accident in China, which clearly bears on lab origin versus zoonotic spillover.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 20d ago
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Recorded answer for is correct: Miller's article says the pandemic was probably caused by a Chinese lab-related accident, which supports the lab-origin statement.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 20d ago
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The quote says the pandemic was probably the result of a military-research-related accident in a Chinese lab, which points against the market-emergence claim.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 20d ago
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Correct answer is 'against': the quote says the pandemic probably resulted from a military-research-related accident in a Chinese lab.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 20d ago
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Judith Miller's July 21, 2025 City Journal article contains this wording in the article text and attributes the claim to her reporting on Kadlec's report.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 20d ago
replying to Judith Miller