{"id":38849,"date":"2025-01-26T15:12:52","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T20:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=38849"},"modified":"2025-01-26T15:12:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T20:12:52","slug":"cia-now-backs-lab-leak-theory-to-explain-origins-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=38849","title":{"rendered":"CIA now backs lab leak theory to explain origins of Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2025\/jan\/26\/cia-now-backs-lab-leak-theory-to-explain-origins-of-covid-19#img-1\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2025\/jan\/26\/cia-now-backs-lab-leak-theory-to-explain-origins-of-covid-19#img-1<\/a>Analysis released by new director, John Ratcliffe, suggests the agency believes totality of evidence makes a lab origin<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2025\/jan\/26\/cia-now-backs-lab-leak-theory-to-explain-origins-of-covid-19\">CIA now backs lab leak theory to explain origins of Covid-19<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>note: &#8220;low confidence&#8221;, so not really a definitive answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2025\/jan\/26\/cia-now-backs-lab-leak-theory-to-explain-origins-of-covid-19#img-1Analysis released by new director, John Ratcliffe, suggests the agency believes totality&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[2088,169,638,57],"class_list":["post-38849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-cia","tag-covid-19","tag-lab-leak","tag-usa","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38849"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38851,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38849\/revisions\/38851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}