I absolutely hate how obvious it is that all this credit being handed to the lab leak hypothesis is basically affirmative action for right-wing bullshit
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It’s not the substance of the arguments that is causing this “reappraisal” of the lab leak hypothesis, it’s that right-wingers have bitched about it long enough that establishment institutions have just given in and decided to take it as an alternative hypothesis on equal standing with others
mar 30, 2025, 2:37 pm • 70 1 • view
If the far right hadn't abandoned Q anon, there would probably be op-eds about how we should take it seriously in the mainstream media by now.
mar 30, 2025, 5:42 pm • 0 0 • view
And then we get another round of bog-standard scolding of expert consensus or debate among subject-matter experts as some sort of illiberal exclusion
mar 30, 2025, 2:38 pm • 28 0 • view
It was the same way with tobacco, with gun legislation, with climate change - there was a preponderance of evidence, and it was either denied or covered up or spun as just another opinion - they weren't just opinions, they were based on observable statistics and scientific evidence.
mar 30, 2025, 2:44 pm • 10 1 • view
Mike Pence was a tobacco truther *in this century* bsky.app/profile/saba...
mar 30, 2025, 2:51 pm • 10 0 • view
wow. i'm a little stunned i hadn't heard about this before.
mar 30, 2025, 3:00 pm • 2 0 • view