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Matt Ridley, co-author of Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19, joined Tom Slater and Chris Snowdon on the latest episode of Last Orders, our podcast all about freedom and the nanny state.
The evidence for Covid having come through a seafood market in Wuhan is so weak, he says.
Matt Ridley says scientists should have admitted that a lab leak was a possibility and pledged to investigate further.
Instead, they denied there was any possibility it leaked from a lab.
Facebook started to censor any conversation about the lab leak, calling it a conspiracy theory and so on. This has caused a lot of damage to the reputation of science.
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