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When experts go astray

When experts go astray

Big topics are too important to leave to the insiders

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Alina Chan, the Broad Institute microbiologist who’s one of the leading lab leak theorists in the scientific community, said on Twitter over the weekend that she sees more support for lab leak among people with more quantitative scientific backgrounds and less so among life sciences people.

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