1/ This is amazing. In July, @theintercept had one of its most dishonest partisan hacks, @RobertMackey, basically call @RandPaul a liar and deranged conspiracy theorist over and over for suggesting Fauci funded research that could've caused the pandemic:
theintercept.com/2021/07/27/cov…
2/ But yesterday, the very same @theintercept admits it sought documents about Fauci-funded research by EcoHealth (Peter Daszak's group) that "raise additional questions about the theory that the pandemic may have begun in a lab accident."
theintercept.com/2021/09/06/new…
3/ Specifically, the documents the Intercept sought -- which I'll bet any amount of money they thought would debunk Paul & vindicate Fauci -- instead did the opposite (oops). The docs more than ever link Daszak's research to possible COVID origins.
4/ Even when they accidentally do reporting that undermines liberal political causes, Intercept editors have to make sure they stay loyal. The admit that Daszak's highly risking research was funded by NIAID, but never once mention the name "Fauci," the Director of that agency:
(and just by the way: this is why I also found irrational and incomprehensible the insistence by some on the left that that lab-leak theory shouldn't be investigated - even if it's true - due to fears of stoking Cold War hatred of China. The research was also *US*-funded and led)
Exactly. It was Daszak who spearheaded the Lancet letter very early on in the pandemic to mock and dismiss the *possibility* that the virus could have leaked from a lab, insisting it was zoonotic, knowing that it was his Fauci-funded research at risk:
One last point on the politics. I never thought it should matter: we should know either way how COVID started, *obviously*.
But I always found the US/China lab-leak theory far less inflammatory (and, you know, racist) than assuming it came from the eating habits of the Chinese.
Anyway, whatever their motives were and however flagrantly they went out of their way to avoid even mentioning the name "Fauci" -- despite how central he is to the story -- @theintercept just did more to advance the lab-leak theory than anyone in months:
Read this thread from @R_H_Ebright about what these new documents published today by the Intercept show about Fauci, EcoHealth Alliance, and what we now know about the origins of COVID:
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