Michael Shermer on COVID Bioweapon: Denies

The claim: COVID-19 was deliberately engineered or made as a bioweapon.

2020-05-07: “What is crazy is to imagine that all of this will be in the service of some kind of Hollywood-villain-style genocidal or thought-control agenda” source
2020-07-06: “Is it a bioweapon or is it a, you know, genetically engineered virus or is it a bat virus? Well, we have the answer to that now.” source
2020-07-06: “bioweapon is not quite as crazy but but we now know from the genetic analysis that it was not engineered it's a bat virus” source
2020-07-06: “As soon as we hang up, I’m going back into my bioweapons lab.” source
2020-07-06: “Nature Medicine Journal published the genome analysis of the novel coronavirus and that it is 98.5% similar to a bat coronavirus.” source