Thread by @SohrabAhmari

Facebook LAST YEAR banned/flagged a New York Post column by @StevenWMosher thoughtfully laying out why a lab leak was a plausible COVID origin.

Now 20 elite scientists have signed a letter in the journal Science arguing the manmade origin must be “taken seriously.”

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In justifying its ban, Facebook cited as a “fact-checker” a researcher with a clear conflict of interest: Danielle E. Anderson, assistant prof at the Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore, personally attested to the lab’s “strict control and containment measures.”

But Anderson has regularly worked with Wuhan’s researchers, and even done her own experiments at the suspect virology facility.

Oops.

ANOTHER fact-checker said: “Any responsible government would strengthen safety and security procedures in high-containment labs that will and should be working with the novel coronavirus to develop countermeasures and diagnostics.”

THAT was her reasoning for banning our story.

I.e., the “fact-checker” couldn’t conceive that the leak theory may be true and therefore preemptively ruled it out and called for our opinion piece to be banned.

Lots of our critics — and those who more broadly called for suppression of inquiries into manmade origins — (spuriously) claimed such inquiries would fan the flames of anti-Asian bias. Truth came LAST for our social-media and journalistic betters.

If COVID is indeed manmade or leaked out of a lab, and the Blob of scientific “experts,” blue-check ideologues and Big-Tech censors effectively conspired to suppress the truth, this would amount to an elite credibility crisis bigger than Iraq WMD. We are ruled by sinister morons.