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IN WITH SCIENCE, OUT WITH POLITICS

Have you ever read The Wolf and the Lamb from Aesop’s Fables? In the story, the wolf tries every excuse to stir up trouble with the lamb as he wants to eat it. The moral of this story? When a villain wants to do you harm, he does not care if the excuse is inappropriate.

Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic raging on worldwide, this seems quite the case when speaking about origin tracing issues. Several countries have been trying to discredit the findings of the first-phase probe conducted by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Wuhan and continue to blame China by circling back to the so-called “lab leak” theory—discarding all science and facts.

China was the world’s first country to report confirmed cases, and has thus far invited the WHO experts to

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