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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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. 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. 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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