Thread by @ggreenwald

To Deny the "Lab Leak" COVID Theory, the NYT and WPost Use Dubious and Conflicted Sources -- all without disclosing any of this

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A bizarre and abrupt reversal by scientists regarding COVID's origins, along with clear conflicts of interest, create serious doubts about their integrity. Yet major outlets keep relying on them: Peter Daszak, desperate to deny a "lab leak," but others who are highly compromised.

One of the most bizarre and still-unexplained episodes in the COVID pandemic was the group of scientists who told Fauci in late January they concluded COVID came from a lab. Within days, they publicly recanted, then received millions in grants from NIAID, controlled by Fauci.

Due to that dishonest Lancet letter omitting Daszak's gigantic conflicts, it was declared off-limits for months to question COVID's origin. People who did were banned online. Now it's recognized the debate is unresolved, yet news outlets keep pushing the same discredited sources.

One of the scientists who told Fauci early on COVID was made in a lab was Robert Garry. He then publicly recanted, receiving millions from NIAID, and is now used by the Post -- with no disclosure -- to pronounce the debate closed about COVID's origins: it was naturally occurring.

Amazing, the overwhelming scientific consensus -- and the Biden Admin's view -- is exactly that which, for the first year, was banned: we don't know if it came from a lab or was zoonotic. But news outlets keep using dubious sources to push the latter:

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(It was always bizarre it was to hear -- including from NYT's own COVID reporter, @apoorva_nyc -- that it was "racist" to consider the lab leak theory. The more racist view was always that COVID came from Chinese wet markets. But either way, all that should matter is the truth.)

He apparently did not like my reporting today.