Worth pointing out the source of this article which came from journalism at US Right to Know:

https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/scientists-proposed-makin...

More context about the author of the article:

> Nicholas Wade was science editor of the New York Times from 1990 to 1996 and is author of three books on recent human evolution: Before the Dawn, The Faith Instinct, and A Troublesome Inheritance.

Conspiracy theory website.

False. If you take a second to read their About page, it's clear they're an investigative journalism org with a professional staff.

https://usrtk.org/about-u-s-right-to-know/

Maybe if you consider writing academic papers on corporate influence in the food, agriculture and pharmaceutical industry to be conspiracy theorizing? Isn't conducting research on any monopolized industry inevitably to research conspiracy facts?

thinly veiled propaganda. https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/gain-of-function-research... just shameful.