As they say in Australia, he is cooked.

Is there any evidence he was fired for these beliefs? Using the deliberately vague phrase, "earlier this year" in November gives the impression of an author trying to either manufacture causation where none exists.

The only part of this article about Altman is the beginning. This author seems incredibly passionate about virology and is using recent news to draw attention to the author's points on the subject.

There's a good possibility that it was due to a lab leak, but it doesn't necessarily have to be synthetic. This was a lab taking too many liberties handling a virus that was already at risk of making the jump to humans, is it "lab-leak covid truther" to claim the inevitable under those circumstances would happen?

Now that he needs to be cancelled such things are popping up like crazy!