Did COVID-19 originate in a Chinese laboratory? Four options, the story behind the story, and the path to our best life
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
4.9 • 576 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2021
⏱️ 8 minutes
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In recent weeks, science researchers have begun asking with increasing frequency whether the coronavirus pandemic originated in a Chinese laboratory. In The Daily Article for May 26, 2021, Dr. Jim Denison describes the current status of the question, explains four origin theories, addresses the cultural story behind the story, and points to the only path that leads to our best lives.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
| 0:07.7 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit thedailyarticle.com. |
| 0:14.6 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:18.4 | Hi, I'm Jim Dennison with Denison Forum, and this is the daily article for Wednesday, May 26, |
| 0:23.0 | 2021. The title is, did COVID-19 originate in a Chinese laboratory? Four options, the story behind |
| 0:29.7 | the story, and the path to our best life. Did the coronavirus pandemic originate in a Chinese lab? |
| 0:37.1 | In February of 2020, when COVID-19 had infected only 15 Americans, Senator Tom Cotton, |
| 0:43.8 | discussed the origins of the virus on Fox News. |
| 0:47.1 | Regarding the research lab in Wuhan, China at the center of the controversy, he said, |
| 0:51.8 | we don't have evidence that this disease originated there, but because of |
| 0:55.3 | China's duplicity and dishonesty from the beginning, we need to at least ask the question to see |
| 1:00.7 | what the evidence says. The Washington Post immediately criticized the senator for, quote, |
| 1:06.0 | fanning the embers of a conspiracy theory that had been repeatedly debunked by experts. The New York Times |
| 1:12.1 | similarly called this idea a fringe theory. That was then, this is now. The Wall Street Journal |
| 1:19.2 | reported on May 23rd that three researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Aerology became so sick |
| 1:25.2 | in November of 2019 that they sought hospital care. A State Department |
| 1:29.6 | fact sheet issued during the final days of the Trump administration said their symptoms were, |
| 1:34.3 | quote, consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illness. This information is fueling the |
| 1:40.7 | question of whether the virus originated in the Wuhan lab. On May 2nd, science researcher Nicholas Wade published a long article exploring this question. He concluded, neither the natural emergence nor the lab escape hypothesis can yet be ruled out. There is still no direct evidence for either, so no definitive conclusion can be |
| 2:02.8 | reached. However, he added, that said, the available evidence leans more strongly in one direction |
| 2:09.1 | than the other. Readers will form their own opinion, but it seems to me that proponents of |
| 2:14.2 | lab escape can explain all the available facts of SARS-2 considerably more |
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