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Rand Paul Releases Slack Messages Revealing Private Doubts on COVID-19 Lab Leak Theory
Newly released Slack messages, made public by Rand Paul, reportedly show authors of a key COVID-19 origin paper privately assigned a significant probability to a lab leak, despite publicly ruling it out.
21 Jul, 23:00 — 21 Jul, 23:00
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Slack messages released by Rand Paul appear to show authors of key COVID-19 origin paper held private doubts
Slack messages reveal "Proximal Origin" authors privately assigned up to 30% probability to a lab leak while publicly ruling it out in their paper.
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Slack messages released by Rand Paul appear to show authors of key COVID-19 origin paper held private doubts
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