We had two valid covid origin hypotheses at the beginning and both should have been treated that way. Excluding one was for all intents and purposes an attack on science. It has since become clear that part of the offensive was a targeted campaign.
The media, for the most part, failed to fulfill an important task of journalism: to keep responsible institutions accountable and to keep the public up to date with the latest knowledge.
I expected the media to report the obvious inconsistencies earlier.
Scientists, by and large, failed to push for transparency, data accessibility and verifiability. If scientists have any belief in scientific principles, if it doesn't matter here, take those words out of our mouth.
All of this hindered the effort to find out what cost - and continues to cost - millions of lives and several trillion in economic damage. History will judge this.
My work here is done.
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