One last thing about the NYTimes' op-eds and the COVID lab leak. I am not suggesting that the authors "stay in their lane," but if you think you're an expert on everything, you're an expert on very little. 1/
Some people overtly express Dunning Kruger. 😌
Some of the smartest people I have met go by the following; the more you learn you realize how much more there is to learn. I find this experience to be humbling in general if you think about it.
To posit a worldwide conspiracy to hide the laboratory origin of SARSCOV2, rather than a run-of-the-mill explanation (e.g., a virus leaped from animals), requires extraordinary evidence, which one might think would take specialized knowledge. 2/