One article is not scientific consensus. Trump did not use any scientific literature to say it would go away. And further this article doesn’t even say it’s not a lab leak. It says it wasn’t human manipulated, those are 2 distinct things.

We did not ever have scientific consensus that a lab leak wasn’t possible. Can you tell me who specifically was saying that? What policy was implemented based on that? The only people I see repeating something like it’s true are people who are staunchly in the “it was a lab leak” area. Ever since the US department of energy said that there is some evidence that it could be a lab leak, a lot of people are using that to say it’s definitely 100% true.

What’s unscientific is conspiracy theorists and individual scientists with personal biases don’t like people coming together to discuss what is most supported by the evidence.

Yeah, and then we collected evidence that showed it was true. And we corrected. Science is still the source for the theory of relativity, it wouldn’t have been found without it.

As a literal “senior scientist” I can tell you that scientific consensus is the entire point of science. Making sure that the logic followed from evidence actually supports the conclusions drawn requires multiple people to confirm for each other. Individual scientists coming out to make claims based on their own evidence and bias are simply not trustworthy because of their limited view point and personal biases. These get eliminated when you bring in more people with different types of bias, we all cover for each other. Sadly, some scientists do not understand this.

The house over site committee press statements today are equivalent to Republican propaganda. They also have a statement regarding Biden family crimes based on the informant that was arrested days ago for lying about the Biden family committing those crimes. That’s not to say that your specific link is or isn’t misinformation, but saying this is an “official US government statement” is pretty misleading.