There’s certainly this, and I think there’s a distinct set of sub-explanations for why some pundits specifically are so fixated on it. I actually think their obsession and overall behavior is an interesting case study that reveals just a LOT of problems in “big name” journalism.
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And it's not just some "blame game", it has really important implications for the future even if you declared it a "no blame" investigation, like the NTSB does its. I honestly do not understand how this isn't obvious, and shocked at how polarization blocks all requisite analysis.
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Just chiming since I was tagged! The complete dismissal of a very real and important issue as conspiracy theory or a mere blame game simply because *some* people, dunno like Mucker Tarlson types, are saying really stupid things about it seems, well, misguided to me. My two cents.
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And a number of pundits not making a huge distinction between these, because they're using this whole thing as a proxy for larger ideological fights about other things.
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My specific issue is that people like Yglesias and Silver began pushing "lab leak" and chiding anyone who doubted it, despite there not being any clear for them to suddenly take it more seriously than six or seven months prior. Indeed, the whole argument on it has, it seems,-
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-more or less operated as if there was some serious new smoking gun which should make people consider it much more seriously than before. Yet no one was really able to point to anything especially clear cut that fit that bill.
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