by James Rickards
Daily Reckoning
Since the outbreak of the pandemic, the “respectable” media has pushed the theory that the virus came from a wet market in Wuhan, China.
Any talk that it might have come from a bioweapons lab in Wuhan was dismissed as a conspiracy theory.
But the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, not exactly a fringe organization, published a paper recently acknowledging the possibility that the virus escaped from a lab.
It didn’t say definitively that the virus escaped from a lab, but it maintained that it’s a legitimate possibility, not just some baseless conspiracy theory.
The origins of the virus are still being debated, but here’s what we do know: