Thread by @ggreenwald

This is an outstanding, I'd even say must-watch, segment from @RyanGrim, reporting on everything revealed by the newly released Fauci emails regarding the origins of COVID and Fauci's clear attempt, with Dr. Collins, to stifle media or scientific debate.

Like Russiagate, the question of COVID's origins is bereft of ideology: a purely evidentiary inquiry. But nothing evades this dreary left-right prism. So all this became a Culture War fight over Fauci. That Grim is anchored in liberal-left politics thus makes this more notable.

The obvious reality is many people -- particularly in elite political and media circles -- have decided that it's best not to know for sure how COVID originated.

The implications from discovering that it came from US-funded lab research are too grave: ignorance is preferred.

Again, it wasn't a coincidence that it was when @RandPaul began asking about these emails and Fauci's early efforts to bury debate that he had his outburst, angrily insisting that any questioning of Fauci is immoral because it is dangerous or -- previously -- Against The Science.

Meanwhile, there are very few places where any questioning of or dissent from COVID orthodoxies -- which have been wrong so many times -- are still aired. Unfortunately for those wishing to repress debate, one is @JoeRogan's show, which just keeps growing. Therefore we have this:

The day after Twitter permanently banned Dr. Robert Malone for the crime of COVID heresy, he went on Rogan's show, and it became one of the most-heard podcast episodes in history. Rogan is a growing threat, so the censorship efforts will have to grow:

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Often, the best way to grasp the dynamic of elite culture is not to immerse yourself in it. That produces what @chrislhayes, before he became an MSNBC star, called "cognitive capture": you drown in and adopt its pieties. Rogan understands media because of his distance from it:👇