A refreshingly honest and inquisitive summary of the topic. I have hardly followed the debackle, only heard some arguments for and against through others. This

A refreshingly honest and inquisitive summary of the topic. I have hardly followed the debackle, only heard some arguments for and against through others. This look like journalism to me, reporting with a great deal of uncertainty and not faling for the temptation to write as if you have all the answers: «To my mind, staking out the proper boundary between science and politics has been the defining journalistic challenge of the pandemic; it might well be impossible to pinpoint, though we could, collectively, have been more thoughtful about looking, and the errors around the lab-leak reflect that failure. The path forward on that story is the same as it always should have been: cover the context, respect the uncertainty, and report out the underpinning truth; China’s lack of transparency may make this impossible, too, but it remains the goal. »