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Politics · July 21, 2026

Slack messages released by Rand Paul appear to show authors of key COVID-19 origin paper held private doubts

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Slack messages reveal "Proximal Origin" authors privately assigned up to 30% probability to a lab leak while publicly ruling it out in their paper.

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