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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The issue with liberal politicians and press/media mocking the lab theories and dismissing them as conspiracies is that it erodes public trust in both politicians and the media. Who can you believe when you are being mocked for something that turned out to be correct? It might not be a big deal per se whether it came from a lab or not, but the consequences of these small lies are long-lasting and great.[/quote]

The problem is we were/are drowning in misinformation and disinformation. There is no standard on how to deal with it. The media (right and left) just feed stories to anger their audience because it gets the viewers.[/quote]

And the answer to that problem is not to shut down conversation. It's to educate people to be skeptical and think critically. [/quote]

Science is supposed to be open minded and responsive to the evidence.  The vicious shutting down of a lab leak debate in the early days of the pandemic is the opposite of what science is supposed to look like, and it created discord between the public and scientists right when the pandemic began.  That suspicion of the public got worse and worse as time went on, but this is where it started.  People aren’t idiots.  They look at where the pandemic broke out, the crackdown on information from China at the time, and know a lab leak is a possibility.[/quote]

It didn’t matter. In spring 2020 the lab leak theory was a worthless conversation.
Unless you worked for the White House and needed to change the subject from your abject failures. [/quote]

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