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Will there be fallout for social media fact checkers, who moderated out users' observation and hypothesis which matched the new consensus? Also, 'there had been a "premature push"' is very passive language. Who pushed? I wish the AP published on the web so that they were able to hyperlink to original source material or their transcript. Edit: I guess the old consensus must be buried.
https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-world-news-health-scien... AP Does publish on the web...
Will there be fallout for social media fact checkers, who moderated out users' observation and hypothesis which matched the new consensus? Also, 'there had been a "premature push"' is very passive language. Who pushed? I wish the AP published on the web so that they were able to hyperlink to original source material or their transcript. Edit: I guess the old consensus must be buried.
https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-world-news-health-scien... AP Does publish on the web...
NPR: who-chief-wuhan-lab-covid-19-origin-premature-tedros
AP: joe-biden-world-news-health-science-coronavirus-pandemic
AP is just stuffing keywords in there.
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Yup. I was pissed off from the start by people who were absolutely sure it was/wasn't a lab leak.
And that you were a racist xenophobic bigot for even considering the possibility of a lab leak.
This is an exaggeration/cherry-picked. Many people were in fact using the assertion primarily to express xenophobia, and had no compelling thoughts beyond that. Those people were not the same as the people "considering the possibility", which describes a more reasonable subset of people.
It was irresponsible and harmful to declare that it definitely was a Chinese lab's fault, too.
Who was saying that?
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Who was saying that?
The lab leak origin is the subject of a popular conspiracy theory that failed to put forward evidence and served mostly as an expression of hatred and political side-taking (and therefore predictably engendered similar attitudes against the theory). This is irrelevant to its status as an actual theory in good faith (sort of like how mask wearing has a left-vs-right flavor independent of legitimate arguments).
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Who was saying that?
The lab leak origin is the subject of a popular conspiracy theory that failed to put forward evidence and served mostly as an expression of hatred and political side-taking (and therefore predictably engendered similar attitudes against the theory). This is irrelevant to its status as an actual theory in good faith (sort of like how mask wearing has a left-vs-right flavor independent of legitimate arguments).
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And that you were a racist xenophobic bigot for even considering the possibility of a lab leak.
>for even considering the possibility This is an exaggeration/cherry-picked. Many people were in fact using the assertion primarily to express xenophobia, and had no compelling thoughts beyond that. Those people were not the same as the people "considering the possibility", which describes a more reasonable subset of people.
Will there be fallout for social media fact checkers, who moderated out users' observation and hypothesis which matched the new consensus? Also, 'there had been a "premature push"' is very passive language. Who pushed? I wish the AP published on the web so that they were able to hyperlink to original source material or their transcript. Edit: I guess the old consensus must be buried.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
And that you were a racist xenophobic bigot for even considering the possibility of a lab leak.
>for even considering the possibility This is an exaggeration/cherry-picked. Many people were in fact using the assertion primarily to express xenophobia, and had no compelling thoughts beyond that. Those people were not the same as the people "considering the possibility", which describes a more reasonable subset of people.