The Lab Leak Commotion

We have no hard evidence to support the idea that the novel coronavirus was leaked from a lab, let alone a smoking gun to validate that hypothesis. But despite pushback on this story from many scientists and the media early on, it's back in the news, and many are talking about the possibility of a lab leak. There may be some legitimate reasons to do more digging, but the debate has gotten heated. And when a conversation is centered around controversy, instead of science, we can lose sight of the bigger, more important picture.

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The Lab Leak Commotion is an episode from PODCAST-19: FiveThirtyEight on the Novel Coronavirus by FiveThirtyEight.com.

This episode is 14:17 long.

This episode was published on Jun 2, 2021.

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