Science Magazine Publisher Apologizes for Dismissing Theory That COVID-19 Came From Lab

‘That was flippant, and I shouldn’t have done that,’ Holden Thorp said.

In an image from video, Holden Thorp, editor-in-chief of Science Journals, speaks at a congressional hearing in Washington, on April 16, 2024. House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic via The Epoch Times

The publisher of Science magazine and other journals, who is close to Dr. Anthony Fauci, said on April 16 that he should not have dismissed the theory that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese laboratory.

Holden Thorp, who holds a doctorate in chemistry, apologized for a 2023 Twitter post in which he wrote that supporters of the natural origin theory have “scientific evidence” on their side, while the only thing Republicans and the witnesses they called—including former U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield, a virologist—have in favor of the lab leak theory is “a mediocre episode of Homeland.”