It took them 18 months, but the Washington Post finally went back and edited its hit piece on Sen. Tom Cotton repeating the "debunked" conspiracy theory that COVID-19 had originated in a lab in Wuhan. As recently as March, the New York Times was reporting on a team of scientists who'd said they'd traced the origin of COVID to raccoon dogs.

Pollster Nate Silver considers the origin of COVID to be a "high stakes" controversy:

Silver's tweet sparked quite a discussion, but it really got interesting at this point — here's Raw Story's Matthew Chapman:

Seriously? People who think COVID-19 was a gain-of-function experiment at the Wuhan Institute of Virology that escaped the lab can't articulate why they think the origin of COVID is important? 

Become substantially less trusting, period. 

Exactly.

The first reason why people want to know about the origins of COVID is to keep the same thing from happening again. Is that a good enough reason?