Appeal to authority isn't a very good argument when so many of the experts who've gone on the record promoting the natural origin theory are weighed down with c

Appeal to authority isn't a very good argument when so many of the experts who've gone on the record promoting the natural origin theory are weighed down with conflicts of interest due to the fact that the funding agencies they rely on have a lot to lose if it turns out the gain-of-function / lab-accident theory is correct (e.g. the authors and architects of the infamous 'Proximal Origin' paper). There are also many experts who are convinced the gain-of-function accident is the only plausible scenario at this point. Hopefully we'll have some comprehensive public hearings into the question in the coming year, at least in the United States, which I look forward to.