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science editor for the new york times, explored the mystery surrounding the virus and he joins us now. nicholas, thanks for joining used today. good to have you with us. as you look at what has come out the past few days and you ve looked at this a long time, what do you make of where this conversation is right now? i think the most remarkable thing to come out of this was the statement from the team by dr. anderson that when they first looked at this virus, they thought it was manipulated. so they seized the public narrative and shaped it against lab escape. he said there s no way this virus could have been manipulated. but from this e-mail from dr. fauci in january, 2020, right after the news had broken,
interest. martha: we know that he and dr. fauci had an e-mail exchange where he thanked dr. fauci for having his back in this part of the debate. but then i look at an interview that dr. redfield, the former head of the cdc did on cnn. this caught a lot of attention and has continued to draw my attention. we played this sound bite many times. here s what he said in a look back at the early days of this virus. watch this. normally when a pathogen goes from a zoonote to a human, it has to figure out how to be efficient in human-to-human transmission. i don t think it makes biological sense. must have been a debate with fauci and redfield. they re saying opposite things, nicholas. they have been, yes. dr. fauci in public until recently has stayed a natural emergence and no credence of a lab escape.
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but right from the beginning, public perception favored natural emergence over lab escape and that perception was very much shaped by a letter that appeared in the lansit and conspiracy theory and the way this emerged we should all stand shoulder to shoulder with our chinese colleagues on the forefront of the disease. now, this letter it later turned out had been drafted and organized by dr. daszak who, of course, if the virus have indeed escaped from wuhan lab he might personal will perceived as as being at fault for not overseeing it better so he had a clear conflict of interest which unfortunately was not declared to the readers of the lansit and letter ends we declare no conflict of interest. mark: this by a lot of media as