《华盛顿邮报》援引了相关领域5名专家的评论，他们均表示，武汉实验室泄露病毒的论调简直无知，并给读者进行了简单的科普。
美国罗格斯大学化学生物学教授理查德·艾布赖特（Richard Ebright）：
根据病毒基因组和特性，没有任何迹象表明它是一种工程病毒。
"Based on the virus genome and properties there is no indication whatsoever that it was an engineered virus," said Richard Ebright, a professor of chemical biology at Rutgers University.
马里兰州生物安全专家蒂姆·特雷文（Tim Trevan）：
“绝大多数新型、重大疾疫情……都不是人为的。
"The vast majority of new, nasty diseases ... come from nature," he said.
马里兰大学化学武器专家弥尔顿·利滕伯格（Milton Leitenberg）：
跟全球的分析师在私人邮件里讨论过病毒是否可能是武汉实验室泄露的生化武器，没有任何人有让人信服的证据证明这一理论。
Milton Leitenberg, an expert on chemical weapons at the University of Maryland, said he and other analysts around the world had discussed the possibility that weapons development at the Wuhan lab could have led to the coronavirus outbreak in a private email chain but that no one had found convincing evidence to support the theory.
新美国安全中心的研究员埃尔莎·卡尼亚（Elsa Kania）：
从理论上讲，生物武器将被设计成具有很强的针对性，而自从它爆发以来，冠状病毒已经广泛传播。
Hypothetically, a bioweapon would be designed to be highly targeted in its effects, whereas since its outbreak the coronavirus is already on track to become widespread in China and worldwide,” she said.
麻省理工学院教授维平·纳朗（Vipin Narang）：
生物武器“理论上具有很高的致死率，低传播感染率”，传播这样的阴谋论“极其不负责任”。
...a good bioweapon "in theory has high lethality but low, not [high], communicability" and that spreading such ideas would be "incredibly irresponsible".
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