The BBC carried a story this week with the headline ‘Covid origin studies say evidence points to Wuhan market’. Bizarrely the paper in Science they are referring to, by Michael Worobey and colleagues, says no such thing. It says: ‘the observation that the preponderance of early cases were linked to the Huanan market does not establish that the pandemic originated there’.
Matt Ridley
Has the lab leak theory really been disproved?
There doesn't seem to be a smoking gun in the latest 'evidence'

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