The lesson of the lab-leak story? Have some humility

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It turns out it might have been a lab leak after all.

As new evidence emerges lending credence to the idea that COVID-19 could have emerged from a laboratory accident in Wuhan, we are now faced with yet another set of news article corrections and walk-backs from public health officials — another embarrassing episode in squandering the trust public had bestowed upon experts in the early days of the pandemic.

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