Ralph Baric is Innocent
Bad reporting and fixation on the wrong theory will undermine lab origin investigations
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 …

