Energy Department says lab leak most likely origin of COVID-19 pandemic
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🗓️ 28 February 2023
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The US Energy Department has concluded that the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated with a laboratory leak. But why don’t we know for sure? In eleven days, the COVID-19 pandemic will officially reach its third anniversary. Why is this debate still raging? These questions point to cultural realities that go beyond the pandemic and relate directly to the intersection of our faith with our world today.
Author: Jim Denison, PhD
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Tuesday, February the 28th, 2023. Welcome to the Daily Article podcast. Today's article |
| 0:09.0 | is narrated by Chris Elkins and written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:16.0 | The U.S. Energy Department has concluded that the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated with a laboratory leak. |
| 0:24.6 | According to the Wall Street Journal, this conclusion is the result of new intelligence and is significant because the agency has considerable scientific expertise and oversees a network of U.S. national laboratories, some of which conduct advanced |
| 0:39.0 | biological research. However, people who have read the classified report add that the U.S. |
| 0:44.9 | Energy Department made its judgment with low confidence, which means that it is based on highly |
| 0:51.0 | incomplete evidence. While the U.S. Energy Department now joins the FBI in saying that the virus likely spread |
| 0:57.4 | via a mishap at a Chinese laboratory for other agencies and a National Intelligence Panel |
| 1:03.6 | still believe that it was likely the result of a natural transmission. |
| 1:08.1 | Two other agencies are undecidedided and White House National Security spokesman |
| 1:12.9 | John Kirby said yesterday that there has not been a definitive conclusion and consensus in |
| 1:18.7 | the U.S. government on the origins of the pandemic. Here's my question. Why don't we know for sure? |
| 1:25.4 | In 11 days, the COVID-19 pandemic will officially reach its third anniversary. |
| 1:31.3 | Why is this debate still raging? |
| 1:33.3 | If the pandemic, in fact, originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, |
| 1:39.3 | as many now suspect, surely Chinese officials know that this is so. |
| 1:45.0 | Yet they continue to assert that the pandemic did not originate at the lab. |
| 1:49.0 | In recent months, they even claimed that the pandemic did not begin in China at all. |
| 1:54.0 | If this is true, why do the U.S. Energy Department and the FBI not believe them? |
| 2:00.0 | These questions point to cultural realities |
| 2:03.2 | that go beyond the pandemic and relate directly to the intersection of our faith and our world today. |
| 2:09.4 | In his latest New York Times article, David French reflects on a speech delivered by President |
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