Monthly episodes discussing this topic, 2020-04 to 2026-07.
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Public officials intentionally suppressed information about the origin of COVID-19 to protect their own interests and careers.
11 people · 7 episodes

Dr. Fauci concealed the lab leak origin of COVID-19 to cover up his own funding of gain-of-function research.
“Fauci from the get-go was lying about the origins of COVID in order to cover up his role in funding this type of research.”
The All-In Podcast · May 2024 · 4 episodes · 1.1M views on this topicThe response to the pandemic, rather than the virus itself, caused massive, unnecessary debt and societal damage while officials covered up the truth to protect their own reputations.
“And they created a setup where all of these things were amplified by their prestige, their perceived scientific knowledge, but what they were really doing was keeping critical information to themselves and then trying to cover it up, Jason. That is so unacceptable when you think of the broad consequ”
The All-In Podcast · May 2024 · 4 episodes · 1.1M views on this topicThe NIH funding of gain-of-function research and the subsequent cover-up by officials constitutes a failure of leadership and an actionable crime.
“This is a failure of leadership. It is a crime. And when people said "Prosecute Fauci", they were like, "You're being hysterical. This is ridiculous." These people need to be prosecuted.”
The All-In Podcast · May 2024 · 4 episodes · 1.1M views on this topicPublic health officials suppressed the lab leak theory to protect their interests and reputations.
“I think the only reason why they weren't saying that was because of Fouchy and it was really because that he had funded this through the Eco Health Alliance.”
Joe Rogan Experience · Jul 2026 · 1 episode · 1.0M views on this topicThe failure to acknowledge the origins of the virus and the implementation of lockdowns and mandates represent a grave crime committed by the US government against the American people.
“but the fact that fouchy was covering up the fact that the that his own or subsidiaries of his own agency had funded the lab where the whole thing came from and then they covered that up and they accused everybody of being a horrible racists or conspiracy theorists if they brought up the the theory ”
Piers Morgan Uncensored · Mar 2025 · 1 episode · 995K views on this topicThe COVID-19 pandemic originated from a laboratory incident in Wuhan, China.
10 people · 9 episodes
The evidence strongly indicates that the COVID-19 pandemic originated from a lab leak in China.
“the evidence is overwhelmingly strong that it's not a coincidence that it broke out in the only city with a huge research program on COVID-L like viruses.”
Triggernometry · Jun 2025 · 3 episodes · 11.0M views on this topicThe coincidence of a high-risk virology lab in the location where the outbreak occurred presents an incontrovertible problem for the natural zoonosis hypothesis.
“the mere fact that that lab is there and that it does research on those types of viruses and that that's where the outbreak was doesn't prove that it originated in the lab but it certainly makes that a plausible hypothesis”
Jordan B Peterson · Dec 2022 · 1 episode · 10.1M views on this topicIt is highly probable that COVID-19 originated from a lab leak in Wuhan, despite public attempts by officials to misdirect the investigation.
“I think it's high probability that it came from the Wuhan lab. I I I think most experts are now saying that. And I think the only reason why they weren't saying that was because of Fouchy and it was really because that he had funded this through the Eco Health Alliance.”
Joe Rogan Experience · Jul 2026 · 1 episode · 1.0M views on this topicShane believes the coronavirus is a man-made bio-weapon that escaped from a Chinese laboratory.
“it's not some natural virus this is clearly man-made if you if you put this under a microscope you'd be able to see it it's like seeing tits that have like scars really those are fake did you see the donk ovid come on miss do you see the thing on a fake this was made the Chad comps made this and it ”
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast · Apr 2020 · 1 episode · 583K views on this topicMatt argues that the coronavirus was likely an accidental leak from a laboratory researching bat viruses in China.
“well he was saying you can look up all these records a lady was studying the links between bats and coronaviruses and it's specifically the transmission from coronavirus from bats to humans and apparently when you isolate a vai this is a chord in the video and you're isolated I think she took her wo”
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast · Apr 2020 · 1 episode · 583K views on this topicThe virus was a created pathogen resulting from gain-of-function research intended for use as a bioweapon.
5 people · 5 episodes
The COVID-19 pandemic was a coordinated release meant to reduce the aging population.
“they need to get they need to soft kill just like in America where we don't want to pay social security. That means f how I take that this is just my personal how I take it. Fouchi and a coalition of whoever is in the universities with China. They both released at the same time because the plan was ”
The Jimmy Dore Show · May 2025 · 1 episode · 200K views on this topicThe COVID-19 virus was likely created by United States researchers and subsequently covered up by the federal government.
“That's that's what I think is the most likely explanation for this virus. And I think that it has been covered up by the United States government.”
The Jimmy Dore Show · Feb 2026 · 1 episode · 111K views on this topicDr. Hooker believes that SARS-CoV-2 was created through gain-of-function research that Fauci funded illegally through the EcoHealth Alliance.
“Because he illegally funded the creation of that virus even even though Barack Obama put a stop to the gain-of-function research that gave us the COVID SARS-CoV-2.”
The Jimmy Dore Show · May 2026 · 1 episode · 78K views on this topicSalty Cracker characterizes the COVID-19 pandemic as a worldwide rollout of a biological weapon.
“I think what we witnessed was a worldwide rollout of something, and biological weapon seems to be what I would call it if I had to name it.”
Dr. Drew · May 2026 · 1 episode · 26K views on this topicThe gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses is a bioweapon program.
“I don't think there's really any argument for gain-of-function research. It it seems to me to uh you know, it's just a it's a bioweapon factory. I think that's kind of been proven.”
Dr. Drew · Nov 2025 · 0 episodes · 0 views on this topicThe COVID-19 pandemic emerged through a natural zoonotic spillover event at a wet market.
3 people · 2 episodes
The COVID-19 pandemic originated from a natural virus outbreak due to unsanitary conditions in China, rather than being an intentional act of war.
“So I would say there's there's three reasons I don't think it was an act of war the first is that China their strategic MO is to do things quietly not to do things loud and noisy coronavirus the way it happened was loud and noisy it broke out in their country first”
Shawn Ryan Show · Apr 2023 · 1 episode · 1.4M views on this topicThe accumulation of evidence pointing toward the Wuhan wet market makes the natural origin theory far more plausible than a lab leak.
“it seems exceptionally impossible. Like I don't know if I could take somebody seriously who said they've done a significant amount of digging into this and they are pretty like 50/50 on whatever. It seems almost impossible to believe in the lab leak right now”
Destiny · Jul 2025 · 1 episode · 212K views on this topicThe COVID-19 pandemic originated from a natural zoonotic spillover rather than a laboratory leak.
“it'll still be like very much scientifically settled that it's natural”
Destiny · Jul 2025 · 1 episode · 212K views on this topicPositions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
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