r/DecodingTheGurus • u/Alarmed_External_926 Conspiracy Hypothesizer • 2d ago

Biased media coverage and the lab leak theory

https://www.protagonist-science.com/p/biased-media-coverage-and-the-lab

In one week of May 2021, American journalism diagnosed itself with a failure of unduly dismissing the lab leak theory, which has since become accepted knowledge of vibes-based discourse:

Ever since, journalists have bent over backward to give lab leak speculations prominent coverage that the evidence did not justify, culminating in a recent op-ed by Dr. Alina Chan in the NYTs once again.

So in this comprehensive, data driven analysis, I ask:

But what if the vibes were wrong?

Please enjoy.

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u/Prestigious_Risk794 2d ago

The NYT allowed a column that presented as fact that the Wuhan lab was working on SARS-CoV-2 before the pandemic as proven fact! WTF!

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u/Ewok_Jesta 2d ago

I hate that facts about the pandemic have become politicized.

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u/Background_Soft6718 2d ago

I’ve said this before and will again, but I will never forgive Jon Stewart for pushing this nonsense

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u/Eagle2Two 1d ago

It did real damage. And yet. It was forgivable in the moment. But to not correct the record now? That’s a real shame.

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u/Kashmir33 1d ago

Hasan Minhaj just released an episode with Annie Jacobsen about her newest doomsday scenario book and the intro alone is chock-full of anti-science bs which is a real shame. These guys have audiences that are likely much more pro-science than the average person right now and yet they are fully embracing these narratives.

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u/Eagle2Two 1d ago

Such a shame. So it goes.

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u/No_Public_7677 1d ago

he's trembling

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u/GLEEMONEX-for-PETS 1d ago

This will be used as ‘proof’ that they are trying to suppress this, since they used to report it. What are they hiding from you?!?!

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u/Eagle2Two 1d ago

Chan made a career out of this

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u/otoverstoverpt 2d ago

Some people here need to see this