A third of Americans believe Covid-19 laboratory conspiracy theory – study
by Poppy Noor from Science | The Guardian on (#522W0)
Pew Research report revealed most Americans believed Covid-19 came about naturally, but 29% believed it was created in a lab
The last thing America needed on top of a president still in denial over the state current pandemic is the rest of the population believing conspiracies about it, but here we are.
While scientists agree that the virus emerged from nature, the uncertainty over how people were first infected by Covid-19 has left space for misinformation to grow. In Britain, that has meant the propagation of a random conspiracy theory about a link between coronavirus and 5G wireless technology - which almost a third of people say they can't rule out.
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