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When the cranks get it right

When the cranks get it right

Be very skeptical when someone says something shouldn't be legally up for debate.

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Damian Penny
Jun 02, 2021
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It’s been a bad couple of weeks for legacy media outlets who haughtily dismissed the lab-leak theory about COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic. As evidence comes to light suggesting that the novel coronavirus may indeed have emerged from a laboratory, the backtracking has been furious.

JVL is correct to say that at least mainstream media outlets have come forward and corrected the record without the threat of lawsuits hanging over their heads, which is more than you can say for right-wing outlets that broadcasted wild conspiracy theories about Dominion voting machines. But this kind of thing doesn’t fill me with confidence that it won’t happen again:

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