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Anti-Trump sentiment fueled premature dismissal of Wuhan lab theory
A remarkable consensus has emerged in the last few weeks: It’s no longer crazy to think that the COVID-19 pandemic was the result of a “lab leak” in Wuhan, China.
In all of these dissections, there’s basic agreement that a key driver of the groupthink that drove the dismissal of the lab-leak theory was the media’s unremitting hostility to, and distrust of, Donald Trump.
Trump floated the lab-leak theory often. He even suggested that China’s failure to alert the world earlier was intended to cost him the election. “China will do anything they can to have me lose this race,” he told Reuters in April 2020.
And justifiably so. For four years, if Trump said “the sky is blue,” someone in the mainstream media would respond, mockingly,
“Well, actually, scientists say ... blah blah blah.”
Trump derangement syndrome is an overused, often-abused term that nonetheless describes a real phenomenon.
A remarkable consensus has emerged in the last few weeks: It’s no longer crazy to think that the COVID-19 pandemic was the result of a “lab leak” in Wuhan, China.
In all of these dissections, there’s basic agreement that a key driver of the groupthink that drove the dismissal of the lab-leak theory was the media’s unremitting hostility to, and distrust of, Donald Trump.
Trump floated the lab-leak theory often. He even suggested that China’s failure to alert the world earlier was intended to cost him the election. “China will do anything they can to have me lose this race,” he told Reuters in April 2020.
And justifiably so. For four years, if Trump said “the sky is blue,” someone in the mainstream media would respond, mockingly,
“Well, actually, scientists say ... blah blah blah.”
Trump derangement syndrome is an overused, often-abused term that nonetheless describes a real phenomenon.
Column: Anti-Trump sentiment fueled premature dismissal of Wuhan lab theory
A remarkable consensus has emerged in the last few weeks: It’s no longer crazy to think that the COVID-19 pandemic was the result of a “lab leak” in Wuhan, China. Just to set the …
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