Thread by @mbalter

1/ As the gaslighting that the lab origins hypothesis for #COVID19 is just some crazy “conspiracy theory” steadily loses effectiveness in the fact of growing evidence, journalists should note that it’s still not too late to catch up with the story. Here are some leads:

https://twitter.com/ydeigin/status/1670993551348334594

2/ And here are some more. The difference between members of DRASTIC (and independent reporters) and mainstream science journalists is that the former actually investigated Covid-19 origins, while the latter cozied up to their favored sources and copied down what they said.

https://twitter.com/theseeker268/status/1670938077928525825

3/ I’ve written a fair bit myself about why so many journalists have failed to properly report the origins story. Here is one piece for the Society of Profressional Journalists magazine, Quill: quillmag.com/2023/04/04/cov…

4/ The problem isn’t really that mainstream journalists got the story wrong. We still can’t be entirely sure how this pandemic began. The problem is that mainstream reporters never investigated the story to begin with due to significant bias. #journalism #media

1a/ That should be “face of growing evidence…”