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"Best practices were followed, compared to what I imagine you think. Messaging was consistent and based on evidence. No I will not back any of this up in the slightest, nor acknowledge the myriad ways this is demonstrably, laughably false."

Cool, ok.

"Millions upon millions of posts might have been deleted, researchers threatened, media and social media leaned on in various ways, all documented, but the consensus is accurate. Science is a popularity contest, and you're snake oil".

Sssure.

"Money is speech, and the only alternative I can imagine is communism".

Sounds like a you problem tbh. A deep one.

"State secrets can include genuinely bad stuff, so 100% of everything they censor must be bad. Go ruin an island if you want better".

Sane take bud. I actually hate improving things where my family and I live. Also my solution to scientists being censored at global scale was in fact to move to a private island and become a dictator. How did you know? So impressive.

"The lab leak theory is for cranks. If those censored, pressured and threatened scientists wanted people to see their evidence, they should have demonstrated their evidence. Also they don't have a right for their evidence to be seen, or a right to investigate for evidence."

I'm out.