NY Times Columnist Claims Scientists Misled Public on COVID Origins

When anyone dared question the official COVID-19 narrative, were labelled a conspiracy theorist, a spreader of misinformation and a threat to public health.

Health experts, the media and government agencies consigned concerns about vaccine safety, natural immunity and the lab-leak theory to the ranks of “fringe” or outright dangerous.

But now, in 2025, some of the same left-wing media that mocked those assertions are finally admitting the truth.

The COVID Lab-Leak ‘Conspiracy’—Now Confirmed

To suggest at the beginning of the global spread of COVID-19 that the virus had potentially arisen from a lab in Wuhan was to be ridiculed, censored, and deplatformed. The “scientific consensus,” we were told, was that COVID-19 was a virus originating from animals and transferred across to humans at a wet market in Wuhan.

Fast-forward to today, and the New York Times is running an op-ed by a former top editor acknowledging what many have known all along — there was a willful effort to depress discussion of a potential lab leak. The trove of emails and communications between top scientists, Dr. Anthony Fauci and government officials reveals a concerted effort to suppress debate and promote the “natural origins” theory despite private worries that the virus might have leaked from a laboratory.

The New York Times op-ed states:

“We have since learned that to promote the appearance of consensus, some officials and scientists hid or understated crucial facts, misled at least one reporter, orchestrated campaigns of supposedly independent voices and even compared notes about how to hide their communications in order to keep the public from hearing the whole story.”

In other words, the "conspiracy theorists" were censored not because they were wrong, but because they were dangerously close to the truth.

Natural Immunity Was ALWAYS Better

Mainstream media and public health officials spent most of 2020 and 2021 denying that natural immunity worked against COVID-19. They claimed vaccines were the only way to achieve immunity.

Now? Even Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a CNN medical analyst and former hardliner on COVID restrictions, has acknowledged that natural immunity works as well, if not better, than vaccination. Research published in The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine has confirmed that people who had recovered from COVID-19 had durable immunity — something that had been accepted for decades as fact with other viruses but was suddenly called “misinformation” during the pandemic.

So why were people banned from social media for saying it? Why were doctors punished for speaking about natural immunity? The answer is just: money and control. The answer is simple: money and control.

The Truth About Vaccine Injuries Emerges

For years, side effect victims of the COVID vaccine were dismissed, mocked and labeled “anti-vaxxers” or “hypochondriacs.” Doctors brushed aside their symptoms, and public health officials reassured the public that these vaccines were “safe and effective.”

But at least Yale scientists are now willing to concede that post-vaccination syndrome is a real phenomenon. They also reported clear immunological patterns associated with the chronic symptoms, including fatigue, brain fog and neurological problems, in people in these studies after they were vaccinated.

The New York Post recently covered this, noting that:

"Scientists find clues on why the COVID vaccine causes chronic health problems in some."

A global study of 99 million vaccinated people also found rare but serious side effects, including neurological disorders and heart inflammation. These risks—previously downplayed or outright denied—are now being quietly acknowledged in the same outlets that spent years demonizing anyone who raised concerns.