1/ We ran really good piece by @rowanjacobsen on the lab leak theory a year ago, that also got into how Trump's racism was undermining attempts to accurately assess—and also his administration's failure to heed warnings about such possibilities.
motherjones.com/politics/2020/…
motherjones.com/politics/2020/…
2/ The other reason that people maybe went too far in discounting any *possibility* of a lab leak was that Tom Cotton and others were conflating an accidental leak of coronaviruses being studied out of prevention with a leak of a designed bioweapon. No.
3/ Whether or not there was a leak, whether or not that could ever be/been ascertained even with full transparency, what we HAVE learned is that freighting an investigation with racism and jingoism does not a good investigation make.
4/ Anyway some who are calling themselves truth tellers about this issue now...didn't much talk about it 14 months ago! So.
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