A Biologist's Guide to Life

Ralph Baric is Innocent

Bad reporting and fixation on the wrong theory will undermine lab origin investigations

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Alex Washburne
Nov 18, 2025
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In today’s online information warzones, a tribal hellscape of a battlefield between paradigms and parties, we are too quick to cast judgement, demonize, and assume the guilt of people who are caught up in a news story. Any serious effort to understand subtle forensic scientific issues like the origin of SARS-CoV-2 will require rigorous analytic methods …

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