Why did so many of our scientific “experts” outright reject the possibility that COVID-19 could have escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology when there was plenty of circumstantial evidence pointing in that direction? Because they were tied up in the very research that may have produced the coronavirus, and they didn’t want anyone to know about it.

That is, essentially, the crux of a recent in-depth report by Vanity Fair that details how serious conflicts of interest have prevented the scientific community and the federal government from getting to the bottom of the coronavirus’s origins.