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Slate Misses the Point on the Lab Leak Theory
It isn’t just about the origins of Covid-19; it’s about censorship.
Slate spent 2,709 words on the lab leak theory last week and completely missed the point.
In, “The Lab-Leak Theory Still Can’t be Disproved. Should We Care?” the author concluded that the search for the origins of Covid19 has become so politicized, pursuing it is now about scoring political points, has very little to do with preventing future pandemics, and thus can safely be abandoned by all right-thinking Democrats.
“The idea has been part of the public discourse for three years,” author John Ehrenreich pointed out. “It isn’t really about preventing future pandemics.”
Slate might have missed — or perhaps doesn’t care — what bothers many people most about the lab leak theory.
It isn’t the answer to the yes or no question of whether or not Covid-19 escaped from a coronavirus bio-research lab that happens to be located at the outbreak epicenter or jumped through an as-yet-unknown intermediary from a host animal species.
It isn’t that Slate — like so many other mainstream publications of its kind — completely ignores the long-term and ongoing cover-up in Wuhan, whereupon the Chinese government has adamantly refused to fully admit the international scientific community into…