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As the lab-leak hypothesis attracts greater attention, so too has been the inquiry into why it was ignored for so long. In UnHerd today, Ian Birrell details how the theory first arose in certain scientific circles before it was roundly dismissed by the high-status scientists, journalists and politicians. This culminated a letter to the Lancet denouncing the lab-leak hypothesis as “conspiracy theories suggesting that Covid-19 does not have a natural origin”.
One of the chief organisers of this statement was Peter Dasnak, a British charity chief, who according to Nicholas Wade, had a “considerable interest” in the origin of the virus:
He has been a very central player all along. The membership of the WHO commission was more or less controlled by the Chinese, which had a strong influence over the WHO and the conditions under which they would allow the commission into the country. It’s fair to say that all of the membership was acceptable to the Chinese, including Dr. Dasnak.
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