And a few personal grudges. I keep banging this drum, but I dont want this to be forgotten; yglesias, silver, etc. got in to a huge argument on here last june with health experts who were pushing back on their very questionable takes, and a lot of their commentary on both this-
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-and the “liberals who cant quit the pandemic” stuff seems to be very much rooted in a grudge over that fight. These people played a pivotal role in pushing lab leak stuff, and there’s every reason to believe it was primarily due to personal pettiness and anger.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @nberlat and
Well, I think the question of pandemic origins is a super important, is not a conspiracy theory to consider lab involvement, and I do not understand this obsession to declare it a conspiracy theory when some of the most important scientists are calling for an investigation.
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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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Who wants to speak up in this environment?Last year was worse with Trump switching from his early "Xi is great, pandemic under control" to later "China is at fault for my administration's screw-ups" But I think the reverse conflation, calling it all a conspiracy, isn't helpful.
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