The context of the NYT article seems to be that the bat-eating theory is now classified as “misinformation” by the NYT. This is confusing to me because that the

The context of the NYT article seems to be that the bat-eating theory is now classified as “misinformation” by the NYT. This is confusing to me because that theory was widely discussed in the early months of the pandemic; implicitly classifying it as “misinformation” implies that it’s been discredited. That alone is news to me. The primary alternative to this theory, which I’ve definitely seen classified as “misinformation”, would be that the virus somehow escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. By “official theory” I meant the narrative that NYT and similar establishments are going with now. Infer from that what you will.