She plans to change her name and disappear, but only after a book deal.
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How a genetic researcher tweeted life into the lab-leak theory
Alina Chan tends to point out things that Chinese researchers didn’t do or say, important facts they did not quickly reveal, the infected market animal they never found, or a database that’s no longer online. She’s plainly suggesting there is a cover-up—and, therefore, a plot to conceal the truth.
Meet Alina Chan
The postdoc who stirred up the lab-leak theory online just wants “to stay alive and not get hacked. “My goal has been achieved,” says Alina Chan, after Biden orders an investigation into how the pandemic started in China. The accusation is that covid-19 spilled from a petri dish and is being covered up. “If I am wrong, I have done something terrible,” says Chan.
More about the lab-leak theory
Technology Review has been reporting on the lab-leak theory for months. Take a look at some of our previous coverage.
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