Michael Hobbes
Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
- Another one! Why is this completely normal process of testing a hypothesis presented as high-level deception? www.thenation.com/article/soci...
- 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...
- EXCLUSIVE: Scientists and science administrators talked to each other before writing a paper. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
- Come on man. bsky.app/profile/jame...
- Well the headline is drawn from the scientists themselves, who explicitly described their work as follows: "Our main work over the last couple of weeks has been focused on trying to disprove any type of lab theory ..."
- Yes, the scientific method means coming up with a hypothesis, then aiming to disprove it! The scientists in question have explained their wording numerous times. I just don't see a scandal in 'scientists believed something, tested it, updated their beliefs and published an accurate paper.'
- nice to finally agree with RFK Jr on something
- The fact that they're still going "the outbreak was in the same city as the lab!!!" is so telling. It's been five years, shouldn't you have some actual evidence by now?
- love reading normal governmental reports from a normal country oversight.house.gov/wp-content/u...
- "The treatment of the lab leak shows the left is prone to groupthink" sounds like a great argument until you realize they're skipping the part where they've shown the lab leak theory to be true. If it's false and we're treating it like it's false then that's not a problem!
- 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...
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View full threadA 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...
- 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...
- 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...
