{"id":753942,"date":"2023-04-21T12:27:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T16:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=753942"},"modified":"2023-04-21T12:27:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T16:27:04","slug":"plagues-poisons-and-magical-thinking-how-covid-lab-leak-hysteria-could-be-straight-from-the-middle-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=753942","title":{"rendered":"Plagues, poisons and magical thinking: How COVID lab leak hysteria could be straight from the Middle Ages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The COVID &#8220;lab leak&#8221; story clearly isn&#8217;t going away soon. The theory that the pandemic began with an accidental release of the virus from a lab in Wuhan recurs like clockwork\u2014most recently in a report from Senate Republicans in the US this week.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-04-plagues-poisons-magical-covid-lab.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Plagues, poisons and magical thinking: How COVID lab leak hysteria could be straight from the Middle Ages<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The COVID &#8220;lab leak&#8221; story clearly isn&#8217;t going away soon. The theory that the pandemic began with an accidental release of the virus from a lab in Wuhan recurs like&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-753942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=753942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=753942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=753942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=753942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}