The big critique of this thread is that the ‘liberal media’ should have taken the lab leak theory seriously last year, regardless of who promoted it.
That is correct only in an absolute, context-less sense.
So yes, ceteris paribus & with unlimited resources, journalists
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That is correct only in an absolute, context-less sense.
So yes, ceteris paribus & with unlimited resources, journalists
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https://twitter.com/Robert_E_Kelly/status/1399531144278777857
should have dug into it. But such a strict methodological posture ALSO then demands taking the other bats*** corona ideas from MAGA, anti-vaxxers, & so on seriously too. Should we have investigated whether Bill Gates was micro-chipping vaccine recipients too? What about George
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Soros masterminding this to undercut Trump’s re-election?
Obviously we didn't look at those, bc in the real world, choices to use one’s time and energy must be made. Because of these real-world constraints, and in the context of a torrent of other absurd MAGA ideas on corona
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Obviously we didn't look at those, bc in the real world, choices to use one’s time and energy must be made. Because of these real-world constraints, and in the context of a torrent of other absurd MAGA ideas on corona
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Remember:
a) There was (and is) no positive evidence for this theory.
b) No credible scientists
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https://twitter.com/Robert_E_Kelly/status/1399596855953035265), it made sense at the time to dismiss the lab leak idea as just another ridiculous idea motivated by obviously political, not scientific, reasoning.
Remember:
a) There was (and is) no positive evidence for this theory.
b) No credible scientists
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were defending it back then.
c) The only people promoting it were known MAGA charlatans, hacks, liars, racists, incompetents, talk show hosts, etc. who clearly knew nothing about epidemiology or China, but had HUGE, obvious political incentives to push the idea. Not even
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c) The only people promoting it were known MAGA charlatans, hacks, liars, racists, incompetents, talk show hosts, etc. who clearly knew nothing about epidemiology or China, but had HUGE, obvious political incentives to push the idea. Not even
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someone like Nicholas Wade, as far as I know, was promoting the lab leak idea seriously last year.
In short, it made little sense last year to spend a lot of time on this, just as it made no sense to investigate whether drinking bleach would help or if corona was a bioweapon
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In short, it made little sense last year to spend a lot of time on this, just as it made no sense to investigate whether drinking bleach would help or if corona was a bioweapon
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