Eli Lake, Columnist

How China Can Quash the Wuhan Lab-Leak Theory

By being more transparent, the government can both clear its name and help advance the cause of science.

May 27, 2021 at 1:35 AM UTC

Eli Lake is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering national security and foreign policy. He was the senior national security correspondent for the Daily Beast and covered national security and intelligence for the Washington Times, the New York Sun and UPI.

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What a difference a year makes. In 2020, discussing the hypothesis that Covid-19 originated in a Chinese lab could get your video yanked from YouTube. Many journalists dismissed such talk as a conspiracy theory, and many scientists insisted it was fake science.

Now these assurances are falling apart.