Journalists, or PR Agents? Why science reporters don’t report fairly on the origins of Covid-19

City Journal ^ | March 20, 2022 | Nicholas Wade

[TChad]

The worldwide toll of deaths from Covid-19 has just hit 6 million, nearly 1 million of which are in the United States. Few science stories are more important than understanding where the Covid virus came from. Yet the science writers’ section of the press corps has proved strangely incapable of telling the story straight.

Two hypotheses have long been on the table. One is that the virus jumped naturally from some animal host, as many epidemics have done in the past. The other is that it escaped from a lab in Wuhan, where researchers are known to have been genetically manipulating bat viruses in order to predict future epidemics. Both hypotheses are plausible but, so far, no direct evidence exists for either.

The rule for covering such a story is obvious: write about both possibilities as evenhandedly as possible until the truth emerges. But science writers have consistently trumpeted any developments favoring natural emergence while downplaying or ignoring those pointing to a lab leak.

[TChad]

Nicholas Wade was science editor of the New York Times from 1990 to 1996. He is in a perfect position to describe the modern abandonment of journalistic standards in favor of agenda-driven science news coverage.

[Uncle Sham]

He somehow misses the real possibility that it was an INTENTIONAL release to initiate the great global “reset”. By refusing to mention this, his article is pure propaganda.

[T.B. Yoits]

Once the $cienti$t$ took their 30 pieces of silver, they were nothing but propagandists paid by unwilling taxpayers.

Up until recently I thought scientists might earn trust back in one generation but now I don't think it's possible at all. They've shown themselves to be absolutely untrustworthy.

[TChad]

Once the $cienti$t$ took their 30 pieces of silver...

The "journalists" don't even require payment, they just push whatever Fauci tells them to push.

The author of this piece, Nicholas Wade, was one of the first to document Fauci's involvement in manipulating the Covid story. Here is his article from last August, "How COVID-19’s origins were obscured, by the East and the West":

https://thebulletin.org/2021/08/how-covid-19s-origins-were-obscured-by-the-east-and-the-west/

[9YearLurker]

Oh, yeah, that’s great journalism, discuss the situation as based on two possibilities that are both made up circumstances as diversions from the truth.

[Paal Gulli]

They’ve already spent 20+ years lying about the origins of climate change. Covid is just same song, third verse.

[sauropod]

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