Exploring the COVID-19 Lab Leak Theory | Matt Ridley

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🗓️ 12 March 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Matt Ridley, who co-wrote the book "Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19," is back on the show for the third time to talk about the possible origins of the pandemic. Recent reporting suggests that the Department of Energy and FBI now consider the possibility that the COVID-19 pandemic started from a lab leak, and Ridley will discuss this development on the show.

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0:00.0	Why is the lab leak theory important?
0:10.3	And what is it?
0:11.7	Did the Wuhan lab accidentally leak the COVID virus?
0:16.1	One of the implications, if it's true that they did, why didn't people think that they
0:20.7	did earlier?
0:21.7	What is the new evidence now?
0:24.0	Lots of questions to be asked.
0:25.5	Lots of questions to be answered.
0:27.2	Do you remember I spoke about this last week with Medih Hassan on the topic, but his opinions
0:33.6	might have been a little bit different than mine.
0:36.6	So this week we brought on probably the world's expert on the origins of the COVID virus.
0:44.4	It's Matt Ridley, the author of viral along with Elimah Chan was the co-author.
0:48.6	But this is an important guess for me because probably Matt Ridley has written the books
0:54.4	that influenced my thinking the most over the past decade or so.
0:58.8	The rational optimists, the evolution of everything.
1:01.4	Many books that he's written that I've quoted hundreds of times or more and I've always
1:07.0	recommended his books.
1:08.0	He's such a smart individual and I really wanted to, I feel blessed having his podcast
1:13.0	that I get to ask the opinions of people like this that I've admired for so long.
1:17.8	So here's Matt Ridley on the lab leak theory.
1:25.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
1:29.9	This is the James Altiger show.
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