SEN RAND PAUL: The COVID cover-up had layers. I’m peeling them back one at a time
For years, Americans were told the lab-leak theory was dismissed by science itself, settled by "The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2," the March 2020 paper cited by every fact-checker and health official who wanted the question closed for good. My investigation has now shown, document by document, that the people who peddled that certainty never believed it themselves.Start with the authors.
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For years, Americans were told the lab-leak theory was dismissed by science itself, settled by "The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2," the March 2020 paper cited by every fact-checker and health official who wanted the question closed for good. My investigation has now shown, document by document, that the people who peddled that certainty never believed it themselves.Start with the authors. Newly released Slack messages show Kristian Andersen privately put the odds of a lab origin at 30 percent. Eddie Holmes said 20, then walked it back to 10.
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- For years, Americans were told the lab-leak theory was dismissed by science itself, settled by "The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2," the March 2020 paper cited by every fact-checker and health official who wanted the question closed for good. My investigation has now shown, document by document, that the people who peddled that certainty never believed it themselves.Start with the authors.
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SEN RAND PAUL: The COVID cover-up had layers. I’m peeling them back one at a time
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