- The Nation was spoon-fed documents from a bad-faith Republican House committee and covered them as if they were a scandal. The more I look into the lab leak the more shocked I am at how desperately the media tried to launder the theory into something respectable. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
- Here are the findings of the House committee. The first bullet point is a bald faced lie. I DO NOT GET why the entire media, left right and center, was so keen to treat this as a legitimate inquiry rather than the Benghazi-style witch hunt it clearly was. oversight.house.gov/release/fina...May 13, 2025 17:57
- The accusation here is that Fauci pushed scientists to look into SARS-COV2 to see whether it was engineered. They did and found tons of evidence that it evolved naturally. You'd think from the coverage that this was later debunked but no! It's science working as intended. bsky.app/profile/maus...
- Like look at this shit. The Nation accuses Fauci of lying because he says he never read the paper before publication yet told the authors "nice job." This is not a lie! Have you ever worked in an office or had a human relationship before
- Exactly. If Fauci conspired with scientists to rush out a false paper based on shoddy evidence that would be a genuine scandal. What actually happened is that he was worried about a lab leak, asked scientists to see if it was plausible and they found it wasn't. And their findings have held up!
- A hallmark of conspiracy theories is treating "secret" documents as a scandal even when their contents disprove the conspiracy theory. In this case we have leaked slack chats that show the scientists believed the lab leak, looked into it and then stopped believing it. Nothingburger!
- Lab leakers keep unearthing evidence that the scientific establishment behaved *exactly as we would like it to* and they just treat it as a scandal regardless! It is good for experts to state their hypotheses, gather evidence and update their views accordingly!! bsky.app/profile/grud...
- They desperately need the left to be groupthinky and wrong about *something*, and they chose this.
- 1. There's no "left" media with any reach in the United States. It's "corporate centrist" and "right wing" 2. It's a perfect opportunity for Both-sides-ism, which fills every hack editor's heart with glee.
- Anti-establishment urges means both sides want to establish that whatever The Man says is a lie, because it hastens it's destruction and can be replaced with something better than wouldn't lie* about that. * - Not necessarily lie, but it could be, so it must be, because establishment untrustworthy.
