We are clearly at a turning point in trying to understand the origins of this pandemic, and it’s good to see the “mainstream” media taking a serious interest. One remarkable thing: The almost complete absence (so far) of mainstream science journalists from any serious…
Investigations. Everything we know about what research was being done in Wuhan, what discussions were going on between Fauci/Collins/Farrar and the scientists they chose to talk to, the involvement of EcoHealth Alliance and the Baric lab, come from independent/alternative…
Publications/journalists/investigators. Few to none of the big names in science journalism, including those covering the pandemic, have done ANY serious investigative work beyond talking to scientists they gravitate towards and writing down what they say. A remarkable fail…
Perhaps that will now change, and @ScienceMagazine, @nature, @sciam and other publications with enough resources to do investigative reporting will now abandon the ideological blinders that have caused them to be MIA in this reporting effort, although I’m not holding…
My breath (and no, puff pieces about Shi Zhengli do not count as investigative reporting, much as they are loved by science writers because they fit into a preconceived notion of how the pandemic began.) #journalism #media #COVID19
One of the most idiotic ideological filters applied by generally politically liberal science journalists is that since right-wingers, including Republicans in Congress, have jumped on the lab leak hypothesis, it must be some crazy “conspiracy theory.” But…
The political right, including many right-leaning publications, have stepped in to fill a vacuum left by the ideological biases of reporters and editors who really should know better. The mainstream media knows better than to ignore the Congressional investigations…
Getting underway just because they are now led by Republicans. And there is nothing stopping Democrats from getting involved in them. Actually, I think they will, especially now that the lab origins hypothesis has gone mainstream in the mainstream media as a permissible…
Topic if inquiry and discussion, despite attempts to suppress any discussion by ideologically driven journalists and scientists. Let the chips fall where they may…
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