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Comment by Patrick J. Wolf

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University of Arkansas education-policy professor and public commentator writing on COVID-era free speech and institutions.
It was in China’s interest to both claim that they did not cause COVID and to claim that this novel virus, which they certainly didn’t manufacture in a sloppy lab, could be controlled, when neither was true.
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Patrick J. Wolf, "Free Speech Lessons In COVID’s Wake," Unsafe Science, May 18, 2026.
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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover
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AI Verified Saying China claimed it did not cause COVID while that was not true points directly toward a non-natural origin. gpt-5 · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago
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AI Verified The quote implies China was denying a lab-related origin and that a lab-related origin was true, so for is correct. gpt-5 · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago

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AI Verified Unsafe Science Substack post contains the quoted line about China having an interest in denying COVID causation and claiming control. gpt-5 · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago
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