Thank you for the great reporting. It is both amazing and disheartening that this comes from a small cadre of independent reporters. Subscribing is money well spent on getting some real investigative journalism
We all know this virus came from a lab. Why can't Congress seem to hold these people accountable for funding this research and also for covering it up and lying to Congress about it?
So, what does happen to people who lie directly to Congress? This smirking, smarter-than-anyone-else attitude has absolutely no place in scientific inquiry.
Every one of these arrogant... I’m trying to think of a word that isn’t one my mother would wash my mouth out for saying ... ‘scientists’ should lose their jobs and be relegated to scrubbing toilets for their future living.
Sadly, the people who should read this won't. It's not that people can't "handle the truth", it's that they don't want to even know the truth; most people have an intractable way of thinking and belong to social groups that think the same way they do. To see things in a different way threatens their social ties and puts doubt into their belief system. I see this on both sides of the political spectrum.
Excellent report, as always. I’d like to share a fascinating Bayesian probability analysis of the lab leak hypothesis by David Friedman. In part, this involves:
“To apply the same approach to using the agreed on facts to estimate the probability that Covid originated as a lab leak, assuming the source was either a lab leak or animal to human transmission in a wet market that sold live animals, we need the prior probability for a lab leak happening, the probability that if the origin was a lab leak Covid would have first appeared in Wuhan and the probability that if the origin was zoonotic it would have first appeared in Wuhan.”
Friedman concludes that, if you start with a 50/50 probability of a lab leak vs. animal origin, you end up with 99% probability of the lab origin. If you start with a mere 10% prior probability of a lab leak, you still end up with a 92% probability. Check out his reasoning.
It's sad that what should be a bombshell report will most likely never gain any traction in the MSM and the broader public. Our information landscape is completely fucked.
Excellent story. Of course our "objective mainstream media" will jump all over these revelations. This kind of work is why I support you guys.
And Michael, I'm constantly impressed at how well you have transitioned to an (investigative) reporter <sarcasm/>despite never having subjected yourself to those tough, rigorous journalistic classes one would normally have to endure at the Columbia School of Journalism.</sarcasm>
Well it’s not like that ever happens in any other scientific field. Particularly environment/climate. It’s not like the entire COVID-19(84) model was perfected there years earlier.
If a government employee uses a personal email to conduct government business, one would think that record would be subject to both FOIA and disclosure to an OIG investigator who should be conducting an internal investigation. We have to hold government officials accountable to lies.
If there was any honesty left at the Times or Post, this combined with Russiagate would require literally hundreds, if not thousands of articles to be removed due to being completely wrong. They should remove every article from 2016-2021 just to be safe and pretend those years didn’t happen.
The “reality based community” who reads those papers religiously is living in a parallel reality. Honestly at this point a schizophrenic who spends all his time on 4chan might have more accurate beliefs than a Times reader with a masters degree living in Brooklyn.
Thank you for the great reporting. It is both amazing and disheartening that this comes from a small cadre of independent reporters. Subscribing is money well spent on getting some real investigative journalism
Amazing work. Now let’s hope Congress gets the message
We all know this virus came from a lab. Why can't Congress seem to hold these people accountable for funding this research and also for covering it up and lying to Congress about it?
Fauci and all of them belong in prison. https://tenor.com/bizhh.gif
So, what does happen to people who lie directly to Congress? This smirking, smarter-than-anyone-else attitude has absolutely no place in scientific inquiry.
Every one of these arrogant... I’m trying to think of a word that isn’t one my mother would wash my mouth out for saying ... ‘scientists’ should lose their jobs and be relegated to scrubbing toilets for their future living.
Sadly, the people who should read this won't. It's not that people can't "handle the truth", it's that they don't want to even know the truth; most people have an intractable way of thinking and belong to social groups that think the same way they do. To see things in a different way threatens their social ties and puts doubt into their belief system. I see this on both sides of the political spectrum.
whew. my pet pangolin has been exonerated..but still not sure about my pet bat.. great reporting. I hope people notice
Excellent report, as always. I’d like to share a fascinating Bayesian probability analysis of the lab leak hypothesis by David Friedman. In part, this involves:
“To apply the same approach to using the agreed on facts to estimate the probability that Covid originated as a lab leak, assuming the source was either a lab leak or animal to human transmission in a wet market that sold live animals, we need the prior probability for a lab leak happening, the probability that if the origin was a lab leak Covid would have first appeared in Wuhan and the probability that if the origin was zoonotic it would have first appeared in Wuhan.”
Friedman concludes that, if you start with a 50/50 probability of a lab leak vs. animal origin, you end up with 99% probability of the lab origin. If you start with a mere 10% prior probability of a lab leak, you still end up with a 92% probability. Check out his reasoning.
https://daviddfriedman.substack.com/p/the-lab-leak-theory
It's sad that what should be a bombshell report will most likely never gain any traction in the MSM and the broader public. Our information landscape is completely fucked.
Great article! Fauci et. al. belong behind bars.
Excellent story. Of course our "objective mainstream media" will jump all over these revelations. This kind of work is why I support you guys.
And Michael, I'm constantly impressed at how well you have transitioned to an (investigative) reporter <sarcasm/>despite never having subjected yourself to those tough, rigorous journalistic classes one would normally have to endure at the Columbia School of Journalism.</sarcasm>
Well it’s not like that ever happens in any other scientific field. Particularly environment/climate. It’s not like the entire COVID-19(84) model was perfected there years earlier.
So, we have that going for us.
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If a government employee uses a personal email to conduct government business, one would think that record would be subject to both FOIA and disclosure to an OIG investigator who should be conducting an internal investigation. We have to hold government officials accountable to lies.
Thank you for your patriotism and for your commitment to actual journalism. Hopefully, this grows less and less rare.
I wish I had hope that something will come of this.
If there was any honesty left at the Times or Post, this combined with Russiagate would require literally hundreds, if not thousands of articles to be removed due to being completely wrong. They should remove every article from 2016-2021 just to be safe and pretend those years didn’t happen.
The “reality based community” who reads those papers religiously is living in a parallel reality. Honestly at this point a schizophrenic who spends all his time on 4chan might have more accurate beliefs than a Times reader with a masters degree living in Brooklyn.