Editing Matt Ridley (section)

===COVID-19===
Ridley wrote in May 2020 that "research into the origins of the new coronavirus raises questions about how it became so infectious in human beings" and included as one possibility "perhaps laboratories".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ridley |first1=Matt |title=So where did the virus come from? |publisher=Wall Street Journal |date=29 May 2020}}</ref> His 2021 book ''[[Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19]]'' written with [[Alina Chan]], which received mixed reviews, ascribes the most likely proximate origin of the virus to the [[COVID-19 lab leak theory]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />