Editorial: How an ideologically blinded media failed to take the COVID-19 lab-leak theory seriously

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Editorial: How an ideologically blinded media failed to take the COVID-19 lab-leak theory seriously
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From the Editorial Board: The origin of COVID-19 is a matter of crucial import to the world, not just vital to the assessment of culpability but to the cause of trying to prevent the recurrence of something similarly catastrophic.

Medical staff wear protective clothing at the Wuhan Red Cross Hospital on Jan. 25, 2020, in Wuhan, China, as the city struggled with the outbreak of the once-mysterious coronavirus that eventually killed millions of people globally.

The opinion comes from the government department that oversees a network of National Laboratories and Technology Centers and has the study of health as part of its jurisdiction. It’s not a definitive designation, even if the FBI has made the same declaration, albeit with “moderate confidence.” The origin of COVID-19 is a matter of crucial import to the world, not just vital to the assessment of culpability but to the cause of trying to prevent the recurrence of something similarly catastrophic.

Just because a person lies or talks nonsense some of the time does not mean that they are not wise or truthful at other moments. And too many journalists failed to see that substituting a kind of collective groupthink certainty as a weapon against Trump was deeply problematic.

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