Credibility crisis: NPR insisted COVID originated naturally by dismissing lab leak theory as nonsense

By Fox News —— Bio and Archives March 3, 2023

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Taxpayer-funded NPR helped hoodwink the nation by dismissing the COVID lab leak theory in 2020 and pushing the mainstream narrative that assured the virus’ origins were natural.

The theory that COVID originated from a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology has now been embraced by FBI Director Christopher Wray, and a bombshell report recently indicated that the U.S. Energy Department believes the virus likely started at the lab. But NPR, which is partially federally funded, rejected the theory with even more fervor than much of the mainstream media. -- More...