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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Jun 2021

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Jonathan Chait

      1. Since my name was brought up here, I'll note that in his earlier piece Chait did not make an effort to distinguish between bioweapon theory & lab leak theory, which is a problem because it feeds into narrative that Trump was victim of liberal press.https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/1402639064319279117 …

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      Jonathan ChaitVerified account @jonathanchait
      Telling the truth about lab-leak theory doesn't help the right-wing https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/06/lindsey-graham-lab-leak-hannity-trump-china-coronavirus-media.html …
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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Jun 2021

      2. Previously Chait wrote: "Health experts who understood all along that it was entirely possible that the virus emerged from a lab simply refused to examine the hypothesis because it had become associated with the likes of Donald Trump." Compare to new column.pic.twitter.com/zldRKlWKSI

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Jun 2021

      3. I continue to insist it's important to get the nuances of the story right -- to make clear the differences between the theories scientists find worth investigating (accidental lab leak) and the unsupported ones promoted by extremists.https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/contra-the-covid-contrarians?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …

      8:28 AM - 9 Jun 2021
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        2. BSH‏ @brooklynpsu 9 Jun 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Chait bungles the MTG analogy. Nobody denies the fires exist just like (almost) nobody believes COVID doesn’t exist. Rather, MTG put forth an inflammatory, unlikely, but technically possible origin story just like Cotton. According to Chait, MTG should be mocked but not Cotton?

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        3. BSH‏ @brooklynpsu 9 Jun 2021
          Replying to @brooklynpsu @HeerJeet

          Also, he's real mad about being called a "centrist contrarian." Fair enough. Intransigent neoliberal is probably more accurate.

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        2. NeverGOP Sandra * Right Matters *  🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦‏ @seb4466 9 Jun 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          I don’t see much difference, from a morality standpoint, between an accidental leak and natural evolution. It wouldn’t change my expectations for American response. In the unlikely event that it was an act of deliberate bioterrorism, I’d find Trump’s response even worse.

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        3. NeverGOP Sandra * Right Matters *  🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦‏ @seb4466 9 Jun 2021
          Replying to @seb4466 @HeerJeet

          It would mean he was helping the terrorists by hobbling response. However, I don’t think that is the case. I think his response was merely the result of his personality disorder and general incompetence.

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        1. NYC118  🇺🇦‏ @nyc118 9 Jun 2021
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          Sloppy language + need for clicks = conspiracies.

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        1. קשת A*‏ @SababaUSA 9 Jun 2021
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          קשת A* Retweeted קשת A*

          The muddying continued with last week's Vanity Fair piece, which leaned hard into the "secret Chinese bioweapon" hypothesishttps://twitter.com/SababaUSA/status/1400570608501641223?s=20 …

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          קשת A* @SababaUSA
          If the author wants readers to seriously consider that the Chinese gov't engaged in secretive dangerous research that resulted in created SARS-CoV-2, this 2003-vintage NSC movie-plot stuff not what you would print: pic.twitter.com/7L553SNKQM
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        1. Zeonhou‏ @ngzeonhou 9 Jun 2021
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          pic.twitter.com/mEa1ryyKZj

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