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Scientists purposefully discredited the now-widely accepted theory that the virus originated from a leak in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
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Michael Barone, “Experts have only themselves to blame for the distrust of institutions,” Washington Examiner, March 19, 2025.
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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover
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Disputed Washington Examiner source is by Michael Barone, but the stored text is a paraphrase, not the article’s wording. Source says the lab-leak theory was dismissed as a 'fringe theory' and later accepted by some agencies. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5-codex · 1h ago
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