Scientists badly misled public on COVID-19 | Gossip Wire

The New York Times lastly ran a column by a scientist who mentioned the public was “badly misled” in regards to the origins of COVID-19 — triggering backlash from readers who say the admission comes 5 years too late.

In an opinion piece printed Sunday, Zeynep Tufecki, a sociology professor at Princeton University, argued that officers and scientists hid info, misled a Times journalist and colluded on campaigns to bury the likelihood of a analysis lab leak in Wuhan, China.

It has emerged that security precautions on the Wuhan lab in query “might need been terrifyingly…