{"id":32944,"date":"2021-06-09T20:48:22","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T11:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/09\/leading-biologist-dampens-his-smoking-gun-covid-lab-leak-theory"},"modified":"2021-06-09T20:48:22","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T11:48:22","slug":"leading-biologist-dampens-his-smoking-gun-covid-lab-leak-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32944","title":{"rendered":"Leading biologist dampens his \u2018smoking gun\u2019 Covid lab leak theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nobel laureate David Baltimore says he overstated case, and the origins of the virus are still unknown<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A Nobel prize-winning US biologist, who has been widely quoted describing a \u201csmoking gun\u201d to support the thesis that Covid-19 was genetically modified and escaped from a Wuhan lab, has said he overstated the case.<\/p>\n<p>David Baltimore, a distinguished biology professor, had become one of the most prominent figures cited by proponents of the so-called lab leak theory.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/09\/leading-biologist-dampens-his-smoking-gun-covid-lab-leak-theory\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobel laureate David Baltimore says he overstated case, and the origins of the virus are still unknownCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA Nobel prize-winning US biologist, who has been widely quoted describing a \u201csmoking gun\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":390,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[918,50,1066,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-science","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32945,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32944\/revisions\/32945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}