As you can see from this Wikipedia link I cited in the story, it is literally filed under "COVID-19 misinformation." I did not do that. That's done by general journalist and media consensus.

Weinstein is not suggesting "it needs to be considered." He's saying why he believes it definitely is from a lab leak. I listened to him, considered what he said, and concluded he's a conspiracy theorist.

Everyone scientifically minded is open to evidence and revising their beliefs accordingly. That's actually the entire point of science. But conspiracy theorists deny evidence based on imagined motives of large numbers of actors, such as scientists supposedly wanting to bury a story about a virus's origin.

As for emotion, what is emotional about asking a hypothesis to be scientific and contain within it a means of falsifying it? This is a conspiracy theory and not a scientific hypothesis specifically because its proponents offer no test by which it can be falsified. Until they do, it will remain non-scientific.