New York magazine’s latest cover story, “The Lab-Leak Hypothesis,” concludes that COVID-19 is a human-engineered virus that escaped from a Wuhan lab — the very same theory that moved Facebook to suppress a Post opinion piece for weeks last year.
Steven W. Mosher only called it a possibility in these pages on Feb. 23, 2020. But Facebook quickly moved to suppress the column as “False Information” — and wouldn’t unblock it until April 17. Bet that a left-leaning magazine won’t have the same trouble.
Nicholson Baker’s feature goes into great length on issues Mosher touched on. Baker believes the virus “was made more infectious” in the laboratory, “perhaps as part of a scientist’s well-intentioned but risky effort to create a broad-spectrum vaccine,” and accidentally escaped.
