Along the same line of thinking, the fact that although the lab leak hypothesis is very reasonable, it was branded as a conspiracy theory and a big effort was m

Along the same line of thinking, the fact that although the lab leak hypothesis is very reasonable, it was branded as a conspiracy theory and a big effort was made to suppress it, makes it seem more likely. Also the principle of adverse interference. China destroyed/made unavailable a lot of documents. It is reasonable to infer that the destroyed documents had evidence of a lab leak.