Veteran Science Reporter Nicholas Wade Favors Lab Leak Theory of COVID

Veteran science reporter Nicholas Wade has written a detailed accessible article on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and the evidence for and against a laboratory leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), arguing that the lab leak theory is more likely based on the available evidence.

https://nicholaswade.medium.com/origin-of-covid-following-the-clues-6f03564c038

Very little if any of this is new but Wade presents the information in a clear way with a minimum of technical jargon. He properly acknowledges several prior detailed analyses and reports on the issues.

(C) 2021 by John F. McGowan, Ph.D.

About Me

John F. McGowan, Ph.D. solves problems using mathematics and mathematical software, including developing gesture recognition for touch devices, video compression and speech recognition technologies. He has extensive experience developing software in C, C++, MATLAB, Python, Visual Basic and many other programming languages. He has been a Visiting Scholar at HP Labs developing computer vision algorithms and software for mobile devices. He has worked as a contractor at NASA Ames Research Center involved in the research and development of image and video processing algorithms and technology. He has published articles on the origin and evolution of life, the exploration of Mars (anticipating the discovery of methane on Mars), and cheap access to space. He has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.S. in physics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).