i hadn't heard of them before now. but some facts about the article that make me think it's mostly credible

- it's based largely on quotes from FOIA requested information/emails. The resulting candidness in communications is significant
- it's contemporaneous correspondence between the directly involved parties
- the account rings true. Not everything in the emails is supportive of full blown conspiracy. It has a balance that sounds very plausible as conflicted, unsure scientists would sound

The people to be skeptical of are people in power, people who oppose transparency, people with a deep, vested interest in a particular outcome, people who's self preservation is at stake.

Fauci and Collins fund the authors' research. Fauci and Collins (and China) are severely negatively implicated in a lab leak scenario. Common sense says they are who to be skeptical of. And now government and the scientific establishment have full on weaponized the "conspiracy theorist" label. Honestly the people that "trust" Fauci and government and mainstream media, and don't recognize the force of the power/self preservation dynamic, to me, are the fools