1. To demonstrate my own, as an example, the first conversation about gain of function I had was May 1, 2020. It led me down a month's long rabbit hole researching highly technical papers. Sometimes it took me a week or more to read and fully understand 10 pages.
https://twitter.com/GPIngersoll/status/1400493758484029445
I did not actually pitch a story on it until first week of Jan.
I would love to say I was ahead of everyone. I wasn't. We did some reporting on lab leak, but we didn't get really aggressive on it until recently.
A lot of that is my fault. I was trepidatious.
I would love to say I was ahead of everyone. I wasn't. We did some reporting on lab leak, but we didn't get really aggressive on it until recently.
A lot of that is my fault. I was trepidatious.
I didn't fully understand. My assumptions about how the research worked turned out to be true, but I didn't truly understand.
Sure as shit didn't help matters that NO ONE in the field was willing to talk about it. One or two, I understand, but dozens of emails going unanswered.
Sure as shit didn't help matters that NO ONE in the field was willing to talk about it. One or two, I understand, but dozens of emails going unanswered.
Certainly a lot of that had to do with media suppression. With self righteous little ninnies thought policing the entire goddamn debate.
Entire beats now exist to pummel smaller independent outlets into submission and to poison the well against them.
It's reprehensible.
Entire beats now exist to pummel smaller independent outlets into submission and to poison the well against them.
It's reprehensible.
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