Was there a Wuhan lab leak? An inquiry won’t dig out the truth. It will deepen the deception, by Jonathan Cook - The Unz Review

Was there a Wuhan lab leak? An inquiry won’t dig out the truth. It will deepen the deception, by Jonathan Cook - The Unz Review: A year ago, the idea that Covid-19 leaked from a lab in Wuhan – a short distance from the wet market that is usually claimed to be the source of the virus – was dismissed as a crackpot theory, supported only by Donald Trump, QAnon and hawks on the right looking to escalate tensions dangerously with China. Now, after what has been effectively a year-long blackout of the lab-leak theory by the corporate media and the scientific establishment, President Joe Biden has announced an investigation to assess its credibility. And as a consequence, what was treated until a few weeks ago as