The editor-in-chief of a major science publisher gave congressional Republicans at a hearing Tuesday afternoon limited ammunition in their efforts to characterize federal officials as unduly influencing COVID-19 origins research, supplementing the ongoing release of communications that suggest the feds have something to hide.
Holden Thorp, who oversees news, research and opinion for the Science family of journals, repeatedly told the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic that he and his peers fell short by failing to better explain to the public that science is a “work in progress” and that scientists are “opinionated” but should change their minds “when we see new data.”
