Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley on Tuesday confronted Tulane University virologist Robert Garry for allegedly propagandizing by downplaying the possibility COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese laboratory. Garry contributed to a pivotal paper published in Nature Medicine in March 2020, concluding that no lab-based origin for COVID-19 was plausible. Hawley, during a Senate hearing examining the “origins of COVID-19,” confronted and criticized Garry for his role in casting doubt on the lab leak theory, accusing him of causing significant harm through this alleged “propaganda.” Read: $344 Million N…
