Leaky Basis

Why we should welcome the lab leak hypothesis. Plagued by fear, scientists have failed to protect us.

Even if the lab leak hypothesis for Covid is false and it was a completely natural event*, the fact is that there are many, many labs doing ill-advised and dangerous research with much-abused or nearly-nonexistent safety protocols.

Covid might not have emerged from a lab. No one truly knows. But itโ€™s very possible it did, and that the next pandemic might as well.

*โ€Naturalโ€ in the context of us disrupting ecosystems and destroying habitat on a vast scale.