> That, despite the authors claims, Covid-19 was clearly of zoological orgin by large scientific consensus, isn't true.

Here's a recent survey of virologists and infectious disease epidemiologists, with a smaller proportion of biosafety/biosecurity professionals and evolutionary geneticists.

> the goal of this survey was to conduct a rigorous, geographically diverse, and anonymous survey of scientific experts regarding the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic

https://gcrinstitute.org/papers/069_covid-origin.pdf

They support the natural origin theory at roughly 4 to 1, not sure if you'd count that as a large scientific consensus but it's in the ballpark.