Wade appeared before Congress's subcommittee on COVID-19 origins on Wednesday, where he was criticized by Representative Kweisi Mfume.
Mfume spent time criticizing Wade and his work, accusing the author of having racist beliefs that he shared in his writing. Mfume said he first participated in the subcommittee hoping to get to the heart of the virus' origins, whether from a lab or an animal, but said the hearing was layered over the issue of race because of Wade's presence.
David Duke, a former Grand Dragon of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, is running for governor of Louisiana. Nicholas Wade, a former editor at the New York Times and author of"Troublesome Inheritance" testifies at a COVID origins hearing in Congress.Mfume criticized Wade for his beliefs and informed the audience that Wade's book was endorsed by David Duke, a former KKK leader and white supremacist.
"You're not a physician, you are not a physician's assistant. You're not a scientist, you have never done a peer-reviewed paper and yet you've got an opinion, which is fine, except that it's steeped in this conspiracy theory that somehow other minorities are so genetically different that they are culpable in some sort of way. I don't like that," Mfume said.
Wade has written on his belief that COVID-19 originated in a lab in various articles and on his Medium account. COVID-19 origin beliefs have led to diversified theories, the most common beliefs being that the virus hopped species and then infected humans. Many right-leaning politicians believed that the virus originated in a lab and was then leaked into society, but the belief was
until it resurfaced when the United States Department of Energy released a report that claimed, with low confidence, it believed the virus originated in the lab.in the 1980s as an editorial writer and evolved into the newspaper's science and health editor by 1990, where he served for roughly two decades.
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