Posted on 09/20/2021 7:28:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Eighteen months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the medical journal The Lancet has finally decided to publish a letter warning of the dangers of dismissing a hypothesis, in this case the lab-leak theory, before scientists test it.
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In February 2020, the journal published a letter dismissing the lab-leak theory. It stated: “We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin.” The authors really wanted us to believe the bat soup theory. Thanks to Dr. Fauci’s emails, we now know that Dr. Peter Daszak, who funded gain-of-function research in the Wuhan lab, coordinated the 2020 letter.
The Lancet has now published a letter from another group of scientists that calls for a reexamination of the assertions in the Daszak group’s letter. “An appeal for an objective, open, and transparent scientific debate about the origin of SARS-CoV-2” has 16 signatories, who assert that the February 2020 letter had “a silencing effect on the wider scientific debate, including among science journalists.”
To add insult to injury, the same group Daszak gathered to write the earlier letter published a second letter on July 5, 2021. Titled “Science, not speculation, is essential to determine how SARS-CoV-2 reached humans,” it asserted that peer-reviewed research provides strong evidence the virus evolved in nature. However, the authors of the newly published letter offer evidence that the debate is far from settled.
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So much censorship occurred that the Hoover Institution’s Victor Davis Hanson declared that we are witnessing the death of science:
The scientific method used to govern much of popular American thinking.
In empirical fashion, scientists advised us to examine evidence and data, and then by induction come to rational hypotheses. The enemies of “science” were politics, superstition, bias and deduction.
Yet we are now returning to our version of medieval alchemy and astrology in rejecting a millennium of the scientific method.
The Lancet took a significant hit to its credibility early in the pandemic. In the zeal to demonize hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), the journal published a paper from a group named Surgisphere after an incredibly fast peer review. The paper made outlandish claims about the data set the group used and the outcomes for patients taking the medication for COVID-19. Other researchers debunked the claims days after the paper was published, forcing The Lancet to retract it.
The Trump-deranged corporate media reported the paper widely, and agencies canceled studies investigating HCQ. Despite being proven safe and effective over decades of use, if you ask many Americans, they will probably still say HCQ causes heart problems and vision problems. The side effects, even after long-term use of HCQ, are exceptionally rare. But the damage done by this fake study is enormous.
This medical journal has lost any credibility it once had.
Those nice guys in the Chinese Communist Party gave us a gift that keeps on giving.
Why is the CCP/China having real financial problems? They own so many countries.
You cannot have science in a culture which does not value the truth.
It’s nice how the truth still comes out, like clockwork, several years later.
And all the people who intuited or deduced it from the start, having endured ridicule in the meanwhile, are never rehabilitated.
And all the people who acted on the obvious lies of the moment are rewarded and promoted.
Liberals ruin everything they touch. Forget the “tipping point”...that was passed/tipped long ago.
Our science and our once respected agencies are far too infected to ever recover.
The war is over...we lost.
Absolutely, they're no more than a medical tabloid since they published the lies of scientists stating that the Wuhanic Plague could not have come from a lab. These same lying scientists were later found to have financial ties to Wuhan.
Pretty much all the journals have destroyed their credibility since covid reared its head...
Someone saying “I was reading about this in The Lancet or JAMA” now brings on an eye-roll....
Both on the path from weekly to weak-lies ...more sad than funny...
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