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Public was misled by the scientific community about COVID origins, NY Times columnist argues
Fox ^ | 03 17 2025 | David Spector

Posted on 03/17/2025 11:54:05 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

The New York Times published an opinion column claiming the scientific community "badly misled" the public in an effort to suppress the theory that COVID-19 originated in a lab in Wuhan, China, even after the paper's own science writer called the theory "racist."

The March 16 piece, "We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives," by Times columnist and Princeton Sociology Professor Zeynep Tufekci, argued that the scientific community long suspected COVID-19 originated in a Wuhan lab, but purposefully "hid or understated crucial facts," to mislead the public about the lab’s "terrifyingly lax" safety precautions.

"We have since learned, however, that to promote the appearance of consensus, some officials and scientists hid or understated crucial facts, misled at least one reporter, orchestrated campaigns of supposedly independent voices and even compared notes about how to hide their communications in order to keep the public from hearing the whole story," Tufekci wrote.

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KEYWORDS: covid; newyorktimes; nyt; scamdemic; science; shamdemic
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I wanted to post the original but it's behind a paywall.

We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives

1 posted on 03/17/2025 11:54:05 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

NYT is begging that we forget the leftist media’s role in the “misleading”. They want to pretend that they were duped too.


2 posted on 03/17/2025 11:56:26 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Ya think?


3 posted on 03/17/2025 11:59:55 AM PDT by gunnut
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To: Tell It Right

BTTT


4 posted on 03/17/2025 12:00:00 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Yawn.


5 posted on 03/17/2025 12:02:53 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore)
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To: yesthatjallen

Did they take any responsibility for the fraud?


6 posted on 03/17/2025 12:07:45 PM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: yesthatjallen

1. What was the motive of the scientific community to mislead the public? Should the public be henceforth suspicious of so-called scientific claims in the future?

2. Is : “trust the science” out the window now, as far as the NYT is concerned?

3. Has the NYT considered actually doing some fact finding and digging when claims are made willy-nilly in the future? Instead of unquestioningly printing them as if they are true. You know, doing that “journalism” thingy.


7 posted on 03/17/2025 12:09:36 PM PDT by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Misled?

Mistakes were made.......................


8 posted on 03/17/2025 12:10:48 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: yesthatjallen

They are still lying. What if China or our own deep state spread the virus to try to ruin Trump’s presidency? What if they did it to get rid of old and disabled people?


9 posted on 03/17/2025 12:11:24 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: yesthatjallen

Shifting the blame.


10 posted on 03/17/2025 12:11:43 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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6yvdiz

It wasn't just "scientific community," it was media, government, and public institutions - including THE NEW YORK TIMES itself

11 posted on 03/17/2025 12:12:08 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Tell It Right

In all fairness, they were just passing on with the Administration told them, with no investigation or variance.


12 posted on 03/17/2025 12:14:03 PM PDT by richardtavor ( )
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To: yesthatjallen

Overcompensated reaction against Trump calling it China virus.


13 posted on 03/17/2025 12:15:18 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: yesthatjallen

“Trust the science” is actually just another way of saying “Trust the scientist”, and no, we don’t trust all the scientist.


14 posted on 03/17/2025 12:15:18 PM PDT by Truthsearcher
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..COVID-19 originated in a Wuhan lab, but purposefully "hid or understated crucial facts," to mislead the public about the lab’s "terrifyingly lax" safety precautions.

First the NY Times lied to us about Covid to help the globalists take away our rights.

Now they've got a new lie to continue the coverup of a planned event to disrupt the Trump economy, destroy thousands of private companies, steal an election, launder billions of dollars, and kill millions of people.

15 posted on 03/17/2025 12:16:07 PM PDT by Henchster (Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Once again an article appears that states the obvious without confronting what really happened. No one will answer the fundamental question of why are American taxpayer dollars being spent on a biological weapons lab in China, Ukraine and lord knows wherelse? The US is a signatory of anti-bioweapons research yet we continue to do it offshore. So we have to leave it at “mistakes we’re made”?


16 posted on 03/17/2025 12:22:58 PM PDT by Rowdyone (Vigilence)
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To: yesthatjallen

Mistakes Were NOT Made: An Anthem for Justice
by Margaret Anna Alice

The Armenian Genocide was not a mistake.
Holodomor was not a mistake.
The Final Solution was not a mistake.
The Great Leap Forward was not a mistake.
The Killing Fields were not a mistake.

Name your genocide—it was not a mistake.
That includes the Great Democide of the 2020s.
To imply otherwise is to give Them the out they are seeking.

It was not botched.
It was not bungled.
It was not a blunder.

It was not incompetence.
It was not lack of knowledge.
It was not spontaneous mass hysteria.

The planning occurred in plain sight.
The planning is still occurring in plain sight.

The philanthropaths bought The $cience™.
The modelers projected the lies.
The testers concocted the crisis.
The NGOs leased the academics.
The $cientists fabricated the findings.
The mouthpieces spewed the talking points.

The organizations declared the emergency.
The governments erected the walls.
The departments rewrote the rules.
The governors quashed the rights.
The politicians passed the laws.
The bankers installed the control grid.

The stooges laundered the money.
The DoD placed the orders.
The corporations fulfilled the contracts.
The regulators approved the solution.
The laws shielded the contractors.

The agencies ignored the signals.

The behemoths consolidated the media.
The psychologists crafted the messaging.
The propagandists chanted the slogans.
The fact-chokers smeared the dissidents.
The censors silenced the questioners.
The jackboots stomped the dissenters.

The tyrants summoned.
The puppeteers jerked.
The puppets danced.
The colluders implemented.
The doctors ordered.
The hospitals administered.

The menticiders scripted.
The bamboozled bleated.
The totalitarianized bullied.
The Covidians tattled.
The parents surrendered.
The good citizens believed … and forgot.

This was calculated.
This was formulated.
This was focus-grouped.
This was articulated.
This was manufactured.
This was falsified.
This was coerced.
This was inflicted.
This was denied.

We were terrorized.
We were isolated.
We were gaslit.

We were dehumanized.
We were wounded.
We were killed.

Don’t let Them get away with it.
Don’t let Them get away with it.
Don’t let Them get away with it.


17 posted on 03/17/2025 12:23:08 PM PDT by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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To: Tell It Right; bitt; ransomnote; Red Badger; fieldmarshaldj; Navy Patriot; Jane Long; ...

There were patents on the jabs and boosters in 2004 way before Covid was supposedly leaked from anywhere.

Millions Killed For Profit - Covid Was State Sponsored Genocide - Dr. David Martin To EU Parliament

https://rumble.com/v2y7l5w-millions-killed-for-profit.html

A Manufactured Illusion: Dr David Martin with Reiner Fuellmich

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsDlHprql-g

The COVID Fraud is Over.
The Illusion of Demand- from the Anthrax attacks to Covid19 (at 1:14:07)
Intentional Release of a Respiratory Pathogen (at 39:58)
CDC committing bribery (at 17:01)
RICO and Racketeering (at 21:55)
There is NO Delta Variant (at 56:15)
Evidence COVID Was Deliberate and For-Profit: “The New Normal Campaign” by Merck Began began on 1/6/04 (at 34:50)
Dr. Peter Daszak (at 30:50)
73 patents of Covid vaccine were created before ALL SARS, MERS and COVID19 outbreaks. (at 27:25)

https://aim4truth.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/The-FauciCOVID-19-Dossier.pdf


18 posted on 03/17/2025 12:25:30 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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Science and scientists didn’t dupe anyone. They were trying to warn us. Any scientist knew this whole thing was unscientific and clearly a power grab. Just those who were paid to fall in line or did so out of fear supported Fauci et al. Nothing scientific about it.


19 posted on 03/17/2025 12:25:31 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: yesthatjallen

NYT throws scientists under the bus. Yeah, we didn’t like those insufferable nerds anyway.


20 posted on 03/17/2025 12:28:09 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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