NEW: The New York Times published an op-ed blasting scientists and government officials for covering up evidence that COVID-19 likely originated from a gain-of-function lab leak. Five years too late. The piece condemns Francis Collins, Anthony Fauci, Peter Daszak, Jeremy Farrar, Kristian Andersen, the authors of the Proximal Origin paper, and EcoHealth Alliance for publishing deceptive studies labeling the lab leak theory a conspiracy, even while privately admitting: "The lab escape version of this is so friggin' likely to have happened because they were already doing this type of work and the molecular data is fully consistent with that scenario." The op-ed delivers an ominous warning: This ongoing cover-up and denial mean that dangerous gain-of-function experiments, the exact kind of research that likely created COVID-19, are still happening right now in inadequately secured labs, quietly endorsed by the scientific establishment. It's not a question of if, but when, the next deadly virus escapes. Remember when the NYT would call you a misinformation spreader, and social media platforms would ban you for believing COVID-19 originated in a lab?