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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Jun 2021

    1. Lab leak theory getting a new hearing is salutary (since the origins of covid are unsolved and it's a reasonable, although not likely, hypothesis). What's not salutary is how some contrarians are using the current moment to whitewash promoters of bioweapons theory.

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      2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Jun 2021

        2. It's important to understand that lab leak theory (accidental release of virus collected as part of normal research) is distinct from the far less plausible bioweapon theories (engineered virus, perhaps deliberately released).

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Jun 2021

        3. Prominent Trumpist both outside the government (Bannon) and inside it (Navarro) used the legitimate lab leak theory as a stalking horse for the much more radical (and unsupported) bioweapon theories. That was the source of fact-checking reaction of 2020.

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      4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Jun 2021

        4. In a long post, @mattyglesias claims that in early 2020 Tom Cotton was simply advancing lab leak theory (with some hawkish rhetoric) and got unfairly tarnished as bioweapons conspiracist.pic.twitter.com/2kVuZSdDLA

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      5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Jun 2021

        5. But if you look at what Cotton was actually saying in that period, very clear he was saying there were a number of theories possible including the shocking possibility Chinese gov't deliberately released weapons on own people.pic.twitter.com/nCCDeTiMut

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      6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Jun 2021

        6. People who remember the Iraq war might recall the consequences of USA gov't officials making false claims about another country having WMDs. The contrarians are playing a dangerous game. More here:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/contra-the-covid-contrarians?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …

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      1. CLewis - Fight For Someone You Don't Know  🔥  🌹‏ @layeredcode 8 Jun 2021
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        any nuance is lost on that crowd

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      1. FS‏ @Lurk61953789 8 Jun 2021
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        Bingo. The bioweapon/Pompeo/Cotton nudge nudge was always what the real "conspiracy" was.

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      2. D.P. Adorpion, Esq.‏ @ChefGuevara_ 8 Jun 2021
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        is this an elliptical way of asserting without evidence that covid is not the product of US bioweapons gain-of-function research that leaked from Ft Detrick in mid-2019 resulting in the so-called 'vape lung' outbreak before the US intentionally spread it in China as a false flag?

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      3. Dan Schuh‏ @schuh_dan 8 Jun 2021
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        Dan Schuh Retweeted nothing to see here...

        Let us not forget the role of Keir Dullea in this nefarious plot.https://twitter.com/gregthec/status/1241793352829489152?lang=en …

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        nothing to see here... @GregTheC
        Replying to @LibsInAmerica @OANN
        Why is Chanel Rion and @OANN using a photo of actor Keir Dullea from the movie '2001: A Space Odyssey'? She seems to think he's "Strategy Advisor" Greg Rubini. NOPE; That's Dave Bowman from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Doh! pic.twitter.com/3ZvTvmbhY9
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      1. Joe Carlin‏ @joe_nca 8 Jun 2021
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        Republicans are straining to find anything not to hold Trump accountable for his inaction.

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