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Scientist admits why COVID-19 lab-leak theory was ignored: ‘Scarier to be associated with Trump’

Updated: June 18, 2021 at 1:57 pm EST  See Comments

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June 18, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — As support for the idea that the novel coronavirus originated in a lab in China grows among the mainstream media and liberal politicians, one scientist has admitted what many conservatives have long suspected

When President Trump expressed interest in the Wuhan Institute of Virology as a potential source of the coronavirus outbreak last year, political pundits were quick to accuse him of fueling anti-Asian racism. 

Alina Chan, a genetic engineering specialist and postdoctoral associate at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University, told NBC News on Wednesday that some scientists kept silent about their interest in the hypothesis that the virus was man-made because they didn’t want to be considered racist too.

“At the time, it was scarier to be associated with Trump and to become a tool for racists,” Chan said, “so people didn’t want to publicly call for an investigation into lab origins.”

But despite the fact that none of the scientific evidence has changed in the past 16 months, now that Trump is out of the White House it

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