Former Biden White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha this weekend became the latest denier of the lab theory to do a 180-degree turn. During the interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, Jha admitted that he now believes that the most likely explanation is a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. As pundits and politicians quietly admit that the natural mutation theory is not as credible, the courageous scientists who were blacklisted for years remain persona non grata in higher education.
Jha stated:
“This is going to surprise some people. You know, when I went into the White House, my view was, ‘This was almost surely a natural outbreak, maybe a lab leak.’ Based on information I learned and based on information I‘ve seen, I have come to conclude that it is more likely to have been a lab leak.”
I commend Jha for publicly addressing his change. Indeed, everyone in academia, myself included, has had their views evolve.
What should not evolve is the willingness of the scientists and academics to accept dissenting viewpoints. One of my long-standing complaints against figures like Anthony Fauci is that they held prominent positions during the pandemic, but said nothing about the cancel campaigns directed against those experts who disagreed with their views on issues like the origins of COVID-19.
As I discuss in my new book, “The Indispensable Right,” the result is that we never really had a national debate on many of these issues and the massive social and economic costs that resulted.
I spoke at the University of Chicago with Bhattacharya and other dissenting scientists in the front row a couple of years ago. After the event, I asked them how many had been welcomed back to their faculties or associations since the recognition of some of their positions.
They all said that they were still treated as pariahs for challenging the groupthink culture.
For years, figures like Bhattacharya (who was recently awarded the prestigious Intellectual Freedom Award by the American Academy of Sciences and Letters) were hounded and marginalized.
Others opposed Bhattacharya’s right to offer his scientific views, even under oath. For example, in one hearing, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) expressed disgust that Bhattacharya was even allowed to testify as “a purveyor of COVID-19 misinformation.”
Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik decried an event associated with Bhattacharya, writing that “we’re living in an upside-down world” because Stanford University allowed dissenting scientists to speak at a scientific forum. Hiltzik also wrote a column titled “The COVID lab leak claim isn’t just an attack on science, but a threat to public health.”
As recently as last year, Hiltzik continued to attack the lab theory.
Bhattacharya’s experience is not unique. When scientists argued that the virus’s origin was likely the Chinese research lab in Wuhan, they were mobbed by the media. That position was denounced by the Washington Post as a “debunked” coronavirus “conspiracy theory.”
The Washington Post denounced Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark) when he raised the theory for “repeat[ing] a fringe theory suggesting that the ongoing spread of a coronavirus is connected to research in the disease-ravaged epicenter of Wuhan, China.”
After Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) mentioned the lab theory, Post Fact Checker Glenn Kessler mocked him: “I fear @tedcruz missed the scientific animation in the video that shows how it is virtually impossible for this virus to jump from the lab. Or the many interviews with actual scientists. We deal in facts, and viewers can judge for themselves.”
The New York Times Science and Health reporter Apoorva Mandavilli called any mention of the lab theory “racist.”
At NPR, an endless stream of segments ran dismissing the lab leak notion, painting it as a debunked conspiracy theory of the far right, including one story titled “Scientists Debunk Lab Accident Theory of Pandemic Emergence.”
I consider it valuable to have voices like Hultzik’s that still challenge the lab theory — just as I thought it was valuable to have lab theorists voice their views. The difference is that critics of the lab theory are not being canceled, but continue to be celebrated for their prior work. To the contrary, figures like Scott Atlas have shown how those educators who helped lead the mob against dissenters still hold positions of power. These figures should not be canceled for holding opposing views, but their conduct in silencing others should be reviewed.
Despite the vindication of scientists on their opposition to policies on the use of surgical masks, the closure of schools, and other issues, there have not been any repercussions for those who enforced the orthodoxy and intolerance during the pandemic in higher education.
The fact is that most are now willing to admit that the lab theory is probably correct, but they are unwilling to forgive those who forced them into that admission.
One thing this debate keeps reminding me is how important it is to stay open to new evidence, especially with questions as complicated as COVID-19’s origins. I remember how certain people sounded about almost everything in 2020, while ordinary families were simply trying to make sense of changing information. That is why I prefer careful updates over absolute claims. I recently came across https://biolife-plasma-services.pissedconsumer.com/customer-service.html while looking up health-related services, and it made me think about how much trust depends on clear communication. Changing your view can be reasonable when the evidence you are weighing changes too over the years gradually.
The available reporting documents activity by NIH personnel but does not include a public admission from Fauci or a final legal finding that he committed a crime in using staff for those purpose
There is no proof he used anybody for anything. They were big boys and girls and decided on their own what to do.
He deserves a million bucks for every life he saved.
We are way beyond being pathetic.
Hultzik said this week the origins debate is over. He’s not helpful. Not if you care about repairing the broken trust in American journalism.
Well cats and kittens, let science resolve the matter. If it emerged from a lab, repeat it. Do it again.
“. . . repeat it.”
Without access to the lab notes, how do you propose doing that?
WELL SAMBO, FAUCI MUST KNOW. He invented it. Plus, my little fine-feathered DODO bird, he’s got all the info on the virus. Figure it out like so many experts who have testified, after their thorough analysis. IT MUS BE MADE IN A LAB!
WE ARE A NATION OF IDIOTS
No, I haven’t been rate limited. Jon, please tell your censors u believe in free speech
The Chinese destroyed all the virus samples they wee working on and all the records pertaining to them. There is nothing to ‘repeat’ and you’d have to be an idiot to attempt it. Aren’t 7 million dead enough to know you shouldn’t let people play God?
The lightning rod that Benjamin Franklin developed was originally criticized by clergy for playing god and preventing god from sending lightning to destroy buildings. Unfortunately for churches, they often have tall steeples and, pretty soon, they were the buildings in the majority that were being burned down by lightning strikes. They change their minds and decided that playing god was not a problem.
FAUCI MUST KNOW. YOU SAY HE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WHOLE THING. U BIG DUMB Raphus cucullatus
Gee. I wonder why opposition to various theories met such powerful resistance? Hmm? I am amazed at Americans who immediately attach the most evil motives to the scientists who condemned what they were convinced would leads to more deaths.
Many “scientists” looking to hustle a buck through clicks found an eager audience in gullible Americans seeking conspiracies.
The science leaders, Collins and Fauci, had decades of untarnished work product behind their claims. Were they perfect? Is anyone? Bohr and Einstein, who loved each other, engaged in warring exchanges over Quantum Theory vs Relativity. Bohr broke out in hives their arguments were so bitter. And, Einstein never did buy into Bohr’s now proven position. Scientists disagree. When people are dying from a new, fatal, vicious, highly contagious virus, I’d try to shut up quacks, too. That was their motivation you silly, gullible people. BTW, a 6 feet distancing recommendation didn’t require a PhD in virology.
“. . . engaged in warring exchanges . . .”
Which is precisely what did *not* happen with Lord Fauci in control.
Prove it
No, they didn’t. That’s the problem. I’m old, I remember Fauci’s screw-ups during the 1980s and 1990s with HIV.
There was no war. Most of the dozen he first consulted with to thought the lab leak was the more likely scenario. So Fauci decided to bury the lead on the lab leak by getting some ‘yes men’ to agree. Then he did his best to ruin the careers of those honest and brave enough to push back. Something Fauci has been know for during his long, inept career.
The 6′ of distancing was pointless as the infectious virions would travel more than 60 feet before losing effectiveness. PhD’s in Virology, from MIT, told us that. You know, the ACTUAL SCIENCE not the fear-mongering crap that came out of Fauci’s mouth. Further, Fauci privately told (stupidly using government email he couldn’t delete) his friends that the 6′ was made up and was, like masks, inefective.
Masks we knew didn’t work because we’ve had 120 years of mask studies and they have NEVER WORKED for viral infections, only bacteria. The CDC published a large meta-study on the effectiveness of masks in the Journal of Emerging Disesase in May, 2020. They found that N95 masks do not work for flu-like respritory viral illnesses (which includes COVID). OSHA found the same thing — too much leakage!!! Yet it was ingored by Fauci and the pro-mask fools.
As for ‘hustling a buck,’ Fauci used government personnel to apply for awards and cash prizes! He made MILLIONS off of COVID. Just he did with all of his failures with HIV.
So I don’t know what ignorant, alternate reality you live in. But the INFORMED world agrees Fauci got it wrong and was, ultimately, as the funder of that program, the cause of COVID.
Moses, as you say Fauci screwed up on HIV, so he should never have been granted power over Covid. I think the determining issue is the R factor. If less than one or near to it masks might help. But once the R factor is above a certain level, it reproduces faster than our ability to stop it.
You know genius, you have a point. You should have been in charge. You would have recommended that everyone breathe into the nostrils of the dude sitting right next to him
See, that’s it. You are so dumb. Don’t bother me.
The foundations of the House of COVID Denial are crumbling. Why should it be any surprise at all when one of the inhabitants of that house, none of whom ever had any respect for, possibly not even familiarity with, the scientific method, chooses self-preservation by fleeing it before the roof falls in on his head? Does that not reflect the true nature of the kinds of frauds and liars that those creatures are?
FYI, Doctor Robert Redfield (the previous CDC director) originally believed that the virus came from Wuhan Lab, but after a long study, changed his mind and said that the virus came from a US lab!
https://www.carolinajournal.com/former-cdc-director-claims-that-covid-19-emanated-from-unc-chapel-hill/
The Wuhan Institute Lab Notebooks held the detailed evidence of the work going on there.
If the wet market were the source of the virus, ask yourself “Why didn’t the CCP confiscate and disappear the lab notebooks?” If US-sponsored GOF research at the lab were the nexus of the virus that leaked, wouldn’t the CCP relish proving this by opening the lab notebooks to investigators?
The exhaustive CCP cover-up is the strongest evidence for the lab leak, and that the work of Chinese scientists was the problem — very likely in violation of the Biological Weapons Convention (treaty).
The cover-up is the evidence. Investigators call it “consciousness of guilt”.
You cannot possibly know that any exist, or not.
What cover-up? You have proof the CCP did a cover-up?
Where do get these stupid, demented thoughts?
ALL lab scientists and bench technicians keep a lab notebook. There’s no other way to record all the details of each experiment. They were disappeared from WIV by CCP officials before anybody could start asking questions.
To deny the very existence of lab notebooks in daily science lab work exposes you as a lame ChiCom propagandist. Your rebuttal is absurd, yet you push it out anyway? I guess I struck a nerve.
Every working biologist in the world, including my wife, keeps a bench notebook when they’re doing experiments. They also keep everything they’ve ever done. When my wife passed away, I had dispose of her notebooks, paper notes and data-files that went back to her graduate program in the 1980s! The only thing I kept was her PhD dissertation.
That was boxes of records as my wife had a 35+ year career as a working scientist with 62 papers as primary, secondary or contributory author as well as multiple chapters in Biology textbooks.
So, yes, we can know. Because we know how it works. Unlike you who, for some bizarre reason, wants to protect a man who funded the research that killed 7+ million people! Which is completely amoral and bizzare.
Protecting Fauci’s reputation is like being a holocaust denier.
A well-composed reflection that elevates the conversation thoughtfully.
Dr. Anthony Stephen Fauci’s morality equally matches (is synonymous) with that of Wall Street. Particularly to wit Viatris (Traded as Nasdaq: VTRS – S&P 500 component) which is the M&A amalgamation of Pfizer ~ Pharmacia & Mylan & Upjohn biopharmaceutical companies.
AI: ( Upjohn immunology vaccination vault, Kalamazoo Michigan )
Pfizer manufacturing campus in Portage/Kalamazoo, Michigan, which has a historic lineage tied to The Upjohn Company and served as the focal staging ground for massive COVID-19 vaccine storage and deployment.
The connection between these concepts bridges the history of pharmaceutical manufacturing in Kalamazoo, next-generation immunology research, and the physical ultra-low temperature storage facilities (“vaults”) used for global distribution.
The Pfizer “Freezer Farm” (The Vaccination Vault)
During the COVID-19 pandemic response, Pfizer constructed a massive, football-field-sized staging ground known popularly as the “freezer farm” at its Kalamazoo (Portage) facility.
The Facility: This specialized vault was outfitted with 350 ultra-low-temperature freezers designed to store millions of mRNA vaccine doses at -70 degrees Celsius.
Historical Site: This ultra-cold storage and formulation vault sits on the 1,500-acre Portage Road campus originally constructed by The Upjohn Company between 1946 and 1951 (specifically Building 41).
The Upjohn Legacy in Kalamazoo
The location’s capability to manufacture and secure highly sensitive biologics stems from over a century of local pharmaceutical history:
Foundation: The Upjohn Company was founded in Kalamazoo in 1886 by Dr. William E. Upjohn.
Evolution: Upjohn merged with Pharmacia in 1995, which was subsequently acquired by Pfizer in 2003 (which later became Viatris (VTRS) in 2020).
Modern Footprint: Today, the legacy Upjohn campus is the largest manufacturing site in Pfizer’s global network, responsible for compiling the ingredients, filling the vials, and handling the logistics for mass vaccination rollouts.
Immunology Research: The “Vault” Nanoparticle
Separately, in the field of advanced immunology, a “vault” refers to a specific type of naturally occurring ribonucleoprotein nanoparticle used as an experimental vaccine delivery platform.
The Tech: Researchers use bioengineered vault nanoparticles to encapsulate antigens (such as chlamydial or anti-tumor proteins) to induce a targeted T-cell and mucosal immune response without needing traditional chemical adjuvants.
The Link: Academic literature evaluating vault nanoparticle vaccines often references utilizing Depo-Provera—a landmark hormone treatment originally developed by the legacy Upjohn Company in Kalamazoo—to hormonally synchronize animal models during immunology testing phases.
Active Research: Academic and clinical immunology continues locally at facilities like the Center for Immunobiology located at Western Michigan University’s W.E. Upjohn M.D. Campus in downtown Kalamazoo.
[The ‘Fort Knox’ of all this is Upjohn’s immunology vaccination vault – All Wall Street [Viatris (VTRS)] had to do is get Fauci to sound the alarm about Covid-19 and get Washington D.C. to fund ‘The Pandemic’ vaccinations.]
Ka-Ching! Follow the Money $$$
Is it a coincidence that Sen. Gary Peters (Democrat Senior Senator for Michigan, Since Jan. 6, 2015 (next election in 2026) who’s representation includes Pfizer, Kalamazoo (MI) that profited from the Covid-19 Pandemic is defending Dr. Anthony Fauci ???
Peters argues Fauci can’t be punished for pleading Fifth ahead of contempt vote
COVID czar Anthony Fauci cannot be prosecuted for asserting his Fifth Amendment rights in a recent hearing, Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) wrote in a letter to colleagues, arguing the former government scientist’s pardon does not undermine his constitutional protections.
By: Rebecca Beitsch – The Hill ~ August 5th, 2026
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/6012035-senator-gary-peters-fauci-contempt-vote/
#. The point is scientists were censored. That issue must be addressed. The next time the morally depraved decide it needs money, another illness will be dropped. Free speech is essential.
There was no “vindication” for “scientists” who opposed masks, school and business closings —more MAGA lies and revisionist propaganda to try to rewrite the facts of how poor a job Trump did in response to COVID and looking to scapegoat Dr. Fauci— just like Trump is trying to rewrite the facts of his 2020 election loss.
Dr. Fauci made recommendations based on the consensus of the scientific community, the virulence of the virus, overwhelmed hospitals and new daily records for COVID deaths and infections. And Dr. Jha doesn’t claim to know more than the scientists who have extensively studied the source of the virus. Turley is doing a great disservice by repeating MAGA spin.
Very soon Anonymous is going to reveal the animal that spread the Coronavirus to people.
This will be quite a feather in Anonymous’s cap. Anonymous will become instantly famous when she displays the animal that transported the virus to humans. What’s that you say Anonymous? No such announcement is forthcoming.
Surely after all this time and your expertise in infectious diseases you should be ready to present the proof of Covid being transferred to humans from the animal kingdom. What no such proof exists? You should have said so in the first place. You didn’t think about that? Oh.
I don’t express my personal opinion on the source of the COVID virus and I don’t claim to be an expert. I cite scientific conclusions of experts from multiple countries who have studied the evidence and reported their findings, including the World Health Organization.
WHO is not all that great either.
“Very soon Anonymous is going to reveal the animal that spread the Coronavirus to people.”
Perhaps it was one of the Anonymous Animals that post comments here while wearing a mask of humanity.
“… scapegoat Dr. Fauci”? We all can see how your Trump derangement keeps you delusional, but even you must realize Fauci’s own diary is what revealed he was lying the whole time, right?
At some point, you just need to set the tequila down and try to get President Trump and Professor Turley out of your head so you can begin to recover whatever may be left of your sanity. 😉
“On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fitth Amendment to the Constitution.” The pandemic started in December 2019 and the corrupt pardon goes back to 2014. Millions of people died, so you go right on defending Fauci. History will not be on your side.
ANO
Trump did in response to COVID.
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Prez Trump is NOT a doctor you fool. He set up all the depts to work together.
Dr. Fauci was in charge of everything else… and failed.
Dr. Fauci was not “in charge of” anything other than communicating the recommendations of the scientific community based on what was known at the time, the seriousness of the pandemic, overwhelmed hospitals, a shortage of ventilators and the fact that the US had more infections and deaths than comparable industrialized countries. Dr. Fauci could not close schools, businesses or restaurants. Only local health officials could do those things. Dr. Fauci was not an elected official or law enforcement officer.
WHAT did Dr. Fauci “fail” to do? The fact that MAGA revisionists are trying to take blame away from Trump for his incompetence and lack of leadership by scapegoating Dr. Fauci and spreading lies does not change the basic facts. MAGA media tells lots of lies: 1. that COVID was due to a lab leak of a virus that had undergone gain of function enhancement that Dr. Fauci somehow paid for and has been lying about; absolutely no proof of this, and all proof based on studies by a multi-national group of scientists concluded that COVID- 19 was a natural mutation of an existing virus; 2. that COVID was a biological weapon deliberately released by the Chinese; if this is true, why would they “release it” in their own country instead of bringing it over here? 3. that the first COVID victims were lab personnel; the first victims were customers at the wet market; 4. that COVID was less dangerous than the seasonal flu (it is ten times more deadly); 5. that children don’t get seriously ill or die from COVID (they do–many children went on ventilators and died); 6. that masking does nothing because the virus is so small that it can pass through the pores of a mask–but the virus is contained in spittle, on the moisture from your breath and the liquid droplets from when you sneeze–masks stop this; 7. that closing schools was unnecessary because children don’t get sick with COVID–they do, and they can spread it to adults in their families, adults working in schools, like teachers, teacher aides, cafeteria workers, resource officers and others.
All of this hullabaloo right now over Dr. Fauci is a distraction away from Trump’s stupid war and his vengeance campaign to re-write the history of his first failed presidency while Republicans are in charge of committees to investigate things.
Nonsense!
Of course, we on this blog cannot scientifically and dispositively conclude on either theory. But just like allegations of exclusion of exculpatory evidence, there is also the recognition of exclusion of inculpatory information, such as:
“… that WIV has refused requests to allow outside investigators to conduct an independent review of lab notebooks and the like, and to make public a bat coronavirus database it [WIV] removed from the internet.” https://www.science.org/content/article/ridiculous-says-chinese-scientist-accused-being-pandemic-s-patient-zero
I add certain diary and email entries from Fauci to this.
But I wish to focus on the topic of this piece by the good professor: the discrediting, ridicule, and condescension directed at dissenters who expressed any doubt or posit that differed from the controlling agenda.
Three plus one does not equal ten. But three plus one plus six missing digits equal ten.
Trump should have to take sensitivity training to help him understand the important role that a free press plays in American society.
You mean biden and O-dumber. They both used the power of Government to suppress free speech.
Mr. Turley,
David Pakman needs a First Amendment attorney to sue the Trump administration to get him off of Trump’s enemy list.
Are you up the to task of upholding the First Amendment against Trump?
Republicans were the ones acting like communists during the Fauci show trial.
Biden was better at keeping Trump’s campaign promises than Trump was.
biden (Forced) everyone to get the shot. Prez Trump did not.
“This is going to surprise some people”???? The only surprise is that it took this guy so long to figure things out.
“Let’s see,” we asked outselves. “What’s more likely?
1) that the Wuhan virus, whose first infectees worked at the Wuhan lab, was the result of a leak from said Wuhan lab; or,
2) that a pangolin and a bat and a wet market in Wuhan cooked up the virus spontaneously, and it was random that Wuhan lab workers just happened to be the first persons infected with this wet market Petri dish pathogen.
For most people with mote-free eyes, number 1 added up.
And then it became clearer that Fauci had a hand in funding the Wuhan gain-of-function research (please, spare me the recitation of the various fronts that were used to obscure the source of the funding).
Or, to put it another way, the U.S., via Fauci, apparently paid China–China– to create a weapon of biological warfare . . . in a Chinese lab. Then, this weapon was loosed upon the world, killing millions.
Enter the pangolin-bat-wet market fairy tale, delivered with all the “I am science; question me, and you’re questioning science” authority of the tobacco institute on sterioids.
The truth was so awful, that there was a full court press to deflect attention toward make-believe.
Quit repeating MAGA lies—the underlying premise of your post is untrue. The very first and second confirmed COVID cases from China were customers of the Wuhan wet market— not employees of the Wuhan lab.
There was NO “gain of function” work done at the Wuhan lab, so Dr. Fauci could not have “funded” a project that didn’t happen. There was no biological warfare weapon involved—genetic studies of the virus proved it had not been tampered with—COVID was found in animal stalls at the wet market. That’s why a consensus of international experts concluded that the source of COVID was a natural mutation.
The “make believe” lies are from MAGA media.
You are perhaps relying on China’s accounting of the first cases?
Right you are. Those Party truth tellers had no motive to steer investigators away from the Wuhan lab. None!
Had the Wuhan lab been the source of the virus, China would have forthrightly fallen upon its sword.
Right? Right???
In his Feb 1 diary entry Fauci himself said that gain of function research was being done at the Wuhan lab. So what are you talking about?
That’s a different issue from whether Fauci funded gain of function research that created the virus there. I don’t think he did, though I do think he funded other gain of function research there.
Dr. Fauci never said that gain of function was being done at the Wuhan Institute.
OT
A few days ago I visited the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam.
I didn’t go as a tourist or a curiosity seeker. The nearest I can say is that I was a sort of pilgrim.
Who cannot be moved by her story and that of her family and friends?
For many the story is ancient history but not for me. I have been very aware for a long time that I was at the beginning of life when she was approaching its end. She and I were both alive on our Earth at the same time. Geography and politics, but but not time or physics, prevented me from knowing her in person.
What happened is horrible. One would expect it could never happen again.
Yet our ‘premier’ universities seethe with antisemitism. How can that be? What is behind it? If Harvard suddenly decreed that Jewish students must wear a yellow star I would be shocked. It will never come to that; but I had never imagined it could come to the point it has in American universities.
It must be stopped. At the very least, no federal money should flow to any university that tolerates and excuses the behavior we have seen on campus of late.
What the hell is wrong with our universities? Stop this now.
Is that a joke? You know Harvard has disproportionately admitted Jews for decades? No? Look it up. There’s no “antisemitism” at Harvard. There is probably a lot of anti-Zionism. There is a huge difference, please educate on the topic. Thank you.
Disproportionately only in the statistical sense that Jewish students at Harvard (and many other colleges) represented a higher proportion of the student body than Jewish people represented of the general population. The admissions criteria were not twisted to increase their representation.
It’s great that you admit they were disproportionate, but unless you worked in admissions, you don’t know. of course, I dont know. But i have a hypothesis, which is, Jewish nepotism, that is a very real phenomenon. I can’t prove it but this is my hypothesis. and yes one of my bosom buddies went to harvard decades ago and let me tell you they were pretty thick in the ranks
here is a study about ethnic nepotism, it is very real phenom as we all know https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886912005569
https://www.thejewishnews.com/opinion/antisemitism-at-harvard-started-long-before-claudine-gay/article_64175560-b489-11ee-9c85-e70b15477aaa.html#:~:text=Tw .
“25% of the faculty were Jewish”
lets not pretend antisemitism, whatever that means, is a real problem at harvard. that is just laughable. nobody with a clue believes that. maybe alan dershovitz does because there are no likudniks for him to take his lunches with in the canteen
and btw I dont endorse the premise of that editorial, it’s equally laughable as the original contentions
“My relationship with Harvard was shifting from identification to alienation. Then came the coup de grace. An essay entitled “The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy” appeared on the Faculty Research Working Papers website. In it, my old boss Stephen Walt and his co-author from the University of Chicago, John Mearsheimer, asserted that American Jews twist US foreign policy to serve Israel’s interests.”
MEARSHEIMER – NOBODY IN POLI SCI HAS BEEN MORE CORRECT & ACCURATE THAN HIM IN GEOPOLITICS FOR THE LAST 2 DECADES
the author compared him to the unknown writer of the infamous “protocols.,” that’s preposterous. Univ of Chicago is lucky to have Prof Mearsheimer. Another great mean falsely slandered as an antisemite just because he isnt a zionist., and he is no “leftist” either.
It sure isn’t a problem within our government or judiciary and when you look at the biggest POS in Congress and Courts it sure seems a common trait.
Sorry.
In my post below I attributed to J. Derbyshire an article written by Nicholas Wade in 2013, “Origins of COVID-19: Who Opened Pandora’s Box at Wuhan – People or Nature?” In Science Wire.
Wade says at the outset:
“In what follows I will sort through the available scientific facts, which hold many clues as to what happened, and provide readers with the evidence to make their own judgments.”
AND
“By the end of this article, you may have learned a lot about the molecular biology of viruses. I will try to keep this process as painless as possible. But the science cannot be avoided because for now, and probably for a long time hence, it offers the only sure thread through the maze.”
That is good science writing. And as events have shown he got it right.
I misremembered the author because both Derbyshire and Wade are fearlessly objective, analytical and willing to ignore consensus. When I recalled the article’s author properly I felt obliged to correct my error here.
Yes, he got it right. As did a few others. I recall an even earlier article by Nicholas Henderson I believe that really opened up the discussion. And Steve Hilton on his Sunday show on Fox was one of the first to document the NIH funding of the research at the WIV. I believe Henderson and Hilton published in January 2021. Another person who was good on this early on was Alina Chan.
The truth never surprises me. Nor do cowards trying to worm their way out of accountability. Same old story.