Here, the report authors' desire to reach specific conclusions runs into a minefield of a complicated evidentiary record. For example ... While a lab leak cannot be ruled out given what we ...

For example in one ... suggested last year. The report reveals new details about the evidence on which analysts backing the so-called lab leak theory based their conclusions.

But the agency’s assessment assigns a low degree of confidence to this conclusion ... of whether the virus escaped from a lab in Wuhan. Two years ago a report by the Energy Department concluded ...

The conclusion ... The March 2021 report by the W.H.O. said it was “extremely unlikely” that the virus emerged accidentally from a lab. But China appointed half the scientists who wrote ...