*Nevertheless, this one article from a sketchy reporter, relaying a single government agency’s speculations that were self-labeled as dubious, managed to reignite the lab leak controversy, with virtually every major US news outlet returning to the story. Trevan offers no evidence that a lab leak caused the pandemic, to back up his insistence that scientists have been blind to the truth. Jonathan Turley opined at the New York Post (2/26/23) that the Journal’s scoop vindicated lab leak theorists who had been branded as racists or conspiracy nuts. ‘Intentionally manufactured’Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who has promoted the racist “great replacement” myth on his show (FAIR.org, 10/20/21; NPR, 5/12/22), took the lab leak speculation and ran with it. It’s just too perfect.”The lab leak claim has been a major feature in Republican circles, the conservative media and anti-Beijing political tendencies for years now.