Former Biden White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha this weekend became the latest denier of the lab theory to do a 180-degree turn. You know, when I went into the White House, my view was, ‘This was almost surely a natural outbreak, maybe a lab leak.’ Hiltzik also wrote a column titled “The COVID lab leak claim isn’t just an attack on science, but a threat to public health.” The New York Times Science and Health reporter Apoorva Mandavilli called any mention of the lab theory “racist.” The difference is that critics of the lab theory are not being canceled, but continue to be celebrated for their prior work.