The Media’s Lab-Leak Humiliation Is A Useful Reminder Of Why Journalism Needs Its Noodges

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It turns out the so-called lab-leak hypothesis of the coronavirus’s origins — that it escaped the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which happens to study coronaviruses in bats — may have been discarded a bit prematurely. Now, this doesn’t mean the theory is true — just that many media outlets and individual journalists and pundits wrote it off as ‘debunked’…