[gorwell]

Let's grok these carefully constructed statements.

"SARS-CoV-2 most likely originated in nature and not in a laboratory... We believe the strongest clue from new, credible, and peer-reviewed evidence in the scientific literature, is that the virus evolved in nature..."

This can be completely accurate, yet does not exclude the possibility that the virus, originally from nature, was then imported into a lab that studies Coronaviruses and accidentally leaked from there. They are trying to obscure the latter by focusing on the original origin. This appears to be intentional misdirection and conflation.