COVID revelations: conspiracy theorists got it right

Apparently, the lab leak conspiracy theorists got it right. The U.S. Department of Energy has officially concluded that COVID-19 "most likely arose from a laboratory leak." That's "according to a classified intelligence report recently provided to the White House and key members of Congress."

Meanwhile, GWU Law Professor Jonathan Turley said that he's most upset about "the censorship, not the science." On the bright side, Prof. Turley said that "now there will be an actual debate. For years, the media and government allied to treat anyone raising a lab theory as one of three possibilities: conspiracy theorist or racists or racist conspiracy theorists."

Now that we've disposed of these accusations, let's start looking into why the medical establishment was so intent on ridiculing the lab leak theorists. This wasn't just a philosophical disagreement between doctors who simply disagreed. This was all-out war against those who dared the establishment with their theories.

It was, essentially, the scientific version of cancel culture. Predictably, the Biden administration isn't agreeing with its own Energy Department:

This isn't much of a fight. Nobody has found an animal that might've been the step between bats and humans. Until that animal is identified, the natural transmission theory remains the least likely possibility. Prof. Turley laments:
As late as May 2021, the New York Times’ Science and Health reporter Apoorva Mandavilli was calling any mention of the lab theory as "racist." She embodies the model of the new "advocacy journalism" at the Times. Reporters who remained wedded to the dated view of objective journalism were purged from the ranks of The Times long ago.

Mandavilli and others made clear that reporters covering the theory were COVID’s little Bull Connors. She tweeted wistfully "someday we will stop talking about the lab leak theory and maybe even admit its racist roots. But alas, that day is not yet here."

It's important to read Prof. Turley's op-ed. While he isn't a scientist, his arguments are quite persuasive.

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