Plot twist for the Science article that generated many headlines about the initial known case being connected to the Wuhan market. As author graciously acknowledges here, the internet researchers—so-called sleuths—have shown the claim to be wrong. Will there be new headlines?https://twitter.com/MichaelWorobey/status/1470159029997428736 …
Someone find those credibly reported November cases, that would help. Motivated reasoning, not so much.
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This is just one of many great divides among the 'tribes of covid'. Various motivations to lean towards lableak, some more respectable than others. Including the old seductively tragic symmetry of "Science, in its efforts to ease the human condition, doing exactly the opposite"?
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I'd much rather worry about a pandemic, for example, than about the carbon catastrophe. The pandemic (which may yet kill me) seems a wonderfully tractable set of problems. When I'm forced to think about carbon, Victor Frankenstein and Henry Jekyll promptly enter the chat..
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