I feel like after the fact people are rewriting history on this. What I saw people speaking out against early on was when people with no scientific background would go out and declare this was definitely a leak from the wuhan lab and you’re just a sheep if you believe otherwise. The fact that after a couple years of research agencies are starting to come out and say the lab leak was the most likely cause does not change the fact that trying to claim you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that it came from a lab leak back in 2020 was an absurd stance to take. What the scientists at the time were largely saying was they thought a lab leak was unlikely, but they were investigating all potential causes. Well, they researched it and as they collected data they released conclusions based on that data, some of which lean towards the lab leak theory. That’s how the process is supposed to go, and that’s why people that came out and said right away “this came from a lab in China” were rightly denounced.