Was it the bats all along?

A new film about the origins of Covid-19 tells how rightwing conspiracy theorists pushed the lab-leak theory to their own ends, suppressing the work of real scientists

Dr Shi Zhengli and Peter Daszak

‘Pandemics, he reminds us, have long been fertile ground for conspiracy theorists’.

Donald Trump with Robert F Kennedy Jr in 2023

‘We tend to think of bats as among the most reviled animals on the planet – associated as they are with vampires and other creatures from the underworld.’

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Bat data

1,400

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300

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100mph

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20 million

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41

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