This is what gets me. @zeynep makes good points about the possibility of a lab leak origin and more importantly the framing of the discussion around it. But because of said framing she frequently attracts the anti-mask, anti-vax crowd.https://twitter.com/RRJ_Whelan/status/1451198676957732868 …
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That's fair. It was the deliberate act of driving the lab leak hypothesis into the realm of conspiracy theory that tied it to that crowd, not your reporting of it. It's frustrating that nuanced discussions seem impossible because "you're one of us, or one of them" mentality.
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Exactly! Taking perfectly sensible questions and painting them as the sole domain of nutcases is exactly how trust is lost, which, in turn, is how baseless conspiracies start appearing more credible, because it becomes harder to remain grounded.
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