Headline: "Is This The Man Behind The Global Coronavirus Pandemic?"
Body: He's researching the viruses, and bats, and hiring people to help him, and the place he works is a lot like an evil corporation from a video game.
Conclusion: You should contact him. Here's his email, phone number, photo and a map of where he works.
I still didn't take it that way. I took it that Dr. Zhou was definitely a leader in the field which produced the thing. As such, he could be the 'man behind' it in a similar way that Einstein was the 'man behind' the atom bomb.
If all I knew is that there was a huge explosion which seemed to harness nuclear forces of the type which Einstein theorized about and I wanted to figure out more about what happened, I would start by asking Dr. Einstein if he knew of anyone who might have the means, motive, and opportunity to develop and deploy such a thing.
If someone has no interest it talking to Dr. Zhou then they have no interest in finding out any answers about the current issue. That would only be the case if they had a pretty good idea of what they would find and no interest in finding it. Or down here in peon-land it could just mean that they are a garden variety retard.
tbf, I didn't take it that way either.
But ZH averages over 1m views a day, and I assume a decent chunk of them a prone to buying into these kind of things. The issue isn't that they are lying, or even that they are trading outrage for clicks, posting the guys number and suggesting people contact him directly is crossing the line imo. I know they found the info on the internet, and everyone has the internet, but they still put the idea of harassing the guy into peoples minds, and they made it way easier to do for those who wanted to.