Scientists are often uncomfortable talking about the power behind certain topics. But we can’t accurately discuss the story about COVID origins without talking about the rightwing donors that run media, and pay bad scientists to push lab leak agendas. /end - ThreadSky

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altnih4science.bsky.social • 6 days ago

Scientists are often uncomfortable talking about the power behind certain topics.

But we can’t accurately discuss the story about COVID origins without talking about the rightwing donors that run media, and pay bad scientists to push lab leak agendas.

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fitnessandfunction.bsky.social•6 days ago

It’s possible, however, for both things to be true. Any bias needs to be checked in at the door - even if one’s political enemies may be right on one point.

altnih4science.bsky.social•5 days ago

This is a fair summary of what happened, yes.

The pseudoscientists took money and attention from rightwing billionaires to give Trump a “get out of pandemic jail free” card.

dustylucite.bsky.social•5 days ago

If anyone got a “get out of jail free card” on the pandemic it was Biden. He declared it “over”, cut testing and monitoring, never spoke of the 1 in 10 infections that lead to long Covid, and then 800k died during his 4 years. That roughly how many Americans have died of AIDS in 40+ years.

altnih4science.bsky.social•5 days ago

Someone just gave us the “but but but merchants of doubt lab leak should consider always doubt” lines.

No. Blocked.

There is a time for good-faith debate and after that a time to tell the public what scientific consensus is. This is the latter time.

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