That does not sound to me like open-mindedness, and I wonder what you would tell a younger researcher...
We should never ever listen to people like that.
There's a lot of evidence that people within the intel agencies actually do believe that there is evidence that it came from the lab.
They believed it did not come from nature.
This is about the business of science with China, this will disturb our relations with China if anybody questions this.
This is not a partisan thing.
FBI concluded it came from the lab.
This virus showed up immediately, very transmissible in humans as if it had been preadapted in a lab.
This is not scientific debate that they're taking us off the Internet.