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1. meowfa+(OP)[view] [source] 2021-05-07 15:09:32
Worse yet, a recent NYT headline described the lab escape hypothesis as "debunked", which is even more egregious and incorrect than "baseless".

>Ex-C.D.C. Director Favors Debunked Virus Origin Theory

Basically trying to portray the ex-CDC director - a virologist - as an unhinged nutjob for saying such a thing.

After a ton of backlash, they relented and changed it from "debunked" to "unproven" and added an editor's note of "The theory is unproven, not debunked", which took a bit of the wind out of their original angle.

>What irony that in a piece pushing support for a “reality czar” (presumably to censor certain stories?) is the position of the NYT so divorced from reality itself.

Yeah, what could possibly go wrong with a Ministry of Truth?

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