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by throwaway290 427 days ago
When far right puts politics above true science it's not surprising. They always do that anyway.

But when left put politics above true science then science gets discredited for everybody. And thanks to FOIA everybody knows that this happened with COVID in 2020/21 and far right has this fact to support their "science bad" and various conspiracy talking points for many years.
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throwaway290 427 days ago
you know you're onto something when you piss off both sides at once. they downvote but have nothing to object haha
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tim333 427 days ago
I think some of the details were maybe a bit unproven. I was a bit surprised how partisan it went in the US. I'm in the UK and we didn't have that sort of left right split on lab leaks or vaccine use.
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throwaway290 426 days ago
They got emails from FOIA, this is not a "prove" thing, it is public documents.

Many scientists were concerned with artificial origin but forced to go with political message and when publishing the proximal origins paper the goal was "disprove lab leak" not find the truth.

Related FB & IG suppression of lab leak mentions by CDC moderation happened all over the world including the UK. I won't duplicate the links but those are reputable sources. Your opinion was shaped by US left.

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