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Exclusive: How Amateur Sleuths Broke the Wuhan Lab Story and Embarrassed the Media
By Rowan Jacobsen
On 6/2/21 at 2:23 PM EDT
For most of last year, the idea that the coronavirus pandemic could have been triggered by a laboratory accident in Wuhan, China, was largely dismissed as a racist conspiracy theory of the alt-right.
The Washington Post in early 2020 accused Senator Tom Cotton of fanning the embers of a conspiracy theory that has been repeatedly debunked by experts. CNN jumped in with How to debunk coronavirus conspiracy theories and misinformation from friends and family. Most other mainstream outlets, from
The New York Times ( fringe theory ) to NPR ( Scientists debunk lab accident theory ), were equally dismissive. (