If we do eventually discover that #Covid19 was indeed something which came from a Chinese laboratory rather than naturally jumping from animals to humans, I think much of the media/establishment will need to think long and hard about how it got this so wrong.
https://twitter.com/wittgenstein78/status/1396569991743426564
The problem isn’t just what @TomChivers calls “seeing the smoke” vs “reading the room”
It’s not just about interventions
It’s about a kind of mob mentality where we convert the conventional wisdom into a tablet of stone which we then bash over the head of anyone who disagrees
It’s not just about interventions
It’s about a kind of mob mentality where we convert the conventional wisdom into a tablet of stone which we then bash over the head of anyone who disagrees
https://twitter.com/TomChivers/status/1397089796351315970
It’s about the fact that when curious people attempted to investigate or cover the lab escape theory - like @mattwridley or @Ianbirrell - they were derided as conspiracy theorists.
Social networks removed their posts, citing fact check sites which didn’t know the answer either.
Social networks removed their posts, citing fact check sites which didn’t know the answer either.
It’s about articles like this one in the @nytimes which contains the following passage.
There is a tendency among much of the media to lazily dump every heterodox theory into the “conspiracy theorist” bucket.
To call things “baseless” when they are not nytimes.com/2021/02/02/tec…
There is a tendency among much of the media to lazily dump every heterodox theory into the “conspiracy theorist” bucket.
To call things “baseless” when they are not nytimes.com/2021/02/02/tec…
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