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Originally Posted by Firebot
It's ironic, that now it's suddenly ok to talk of the lab origin possibility as the media and new articles have picked up on the possibility, but a year ago OP was vilified for even mentioning it and people called him a bigot and conspiracy nut. We also can't currently cannot say "wuhan coronavirus", but we can say "indian variant".
That's CP for you (as Manhanttanboy pointed out early in the thread), cancel any opposing views and even cancel a fricking post title, unless they become mainstream. Months or years from now, we could be talking of the "Wuhan lab engineered coronavirus" if proven and picked up by the media.
Then it's ok again.
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The number 1 aspect of this overall story to me is the proliferation of gain of function that needs to be cracked down on, as the risk vs reward balance seems way off.
But the number 2 aspect is how dishonest and anti-intellectual news and opinion journalism has become, and how so many people are taken along for the ride. The "fact checking industry" has completely lost all credibility. The side by sides from CNN and other news agencies claiming this was debunked and fully disproven vs today are jarring. Politico gave Sen Tom Cotton 4 Pinocchio's for putting this out there, and then had to pivot back recently. Of course nothing was debunked, nothing was proven, it was simply a lever for these organizations to pull against people they disliked politically, namely Trump and a few other Republicans that espoused this theory. How could you have trust in any of these organizations when they claim something is 100% untrue just to change course a few months later? The really scary part is how many people get taken along for the ride for whatever reason, overlooking the mountain of circumstantial evidence pointing towards a lab leak stating with full confidence that there's no way it could be true, and castigating anyone who disagrees. The early pages of this thread are a gold mine of absolute clown takes from a lot of posters, some of whom are actually smart. If a small selection of real journalists hadn't kept pushing then the conclusion I'm forced to reach is that a very significant discovery for all the global ramifications involved (that this was a man-made, lab leak virus) would not have been made simply because the bulk of the news media was too interested in "debunking" this to dunk on politicians they don't like. That should be concerning to everyone who has a brain and isn't a rabid ideologue.