Thorough analysis by @AshleyRindsberg @tabletmag
“the false narrative around the pandemic’s origins represented a tipping point—a comprehensive failure in journalistic quality and mores in a time of national emergency” tabletmag.com/sections/news/…
“the false narrative around the pandemic’s origins represented a tipping point—a comprehensive failure in journalistic quality and mores in a time of national emergency” tabletmag.com/sections/news/…
Many good lines in this article:
“For Daszak, The Lancet letter was only the opening salvo in a yearlong media campaign in which the EcoHealth Alliance head would become an Ahmed Chalabi-like presence, leading the media with claims of evidence of zoonotic spillover.”
“For Daszak, The Lancet letter was only the opening salvo in a yearlong media campaign in which the EcoHealth Alliance head would become an Ahmed Chalabi-like presence, leading the media with claims of evidence of zoonotic spillover.”
“these formed what we might call Daszak’s triangle, a mental model that made lab leak a social and political impossibility for anyone who did not want to be branded as an anti-science, right-wing xenophobe.”
Even as an Asian, liberal, Canadian scientist with strong expertise in working with viruses and genetic engineering, I barely got away with calling for an investigation into a lab #OriginOfCovid
I’ve heard from top news & science organizations (I won’t reveal their identities) that they can’t be associated in any way with the lab #OriginOfCovid controversy. I suspect it’s because many experts have stayed silent in fear of being called racist, anti-science, right-wingers.
We know how scientists, editors & journalists can be exploited to manipulate public narratives. Bad actors also know that now and have been testing these loopholes (eg #PopsicleOrigins).
We need to fix these problems in research and media communities before the next crisis.
We need to fix these problems in research and media communities before the next crisis.
As a scientist who argued that experiments funded by NIH were not obviously gain of function research of concern, I felt deceived after documents showing just that were released in Sep/Oct 2021… but not as much as the scientists who advocated strongly for natural #OriginOfCovid
The @EcoHealthNYC needs to release all of their communications and documents relating to work on coronaviruses and their collaboration with Wuhan scientists.
https://twitter.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1451167948970790924?s=20
Too many scientists and journalists have been given the runaround in this pandemic to sufficiently embarrass both communities. We need to demand transparency and hold individuals and organizations accountable if found to have deliberately withheld key info or misled the public.
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