Progressives Shout Down Debate: Lab-Leak Hypothesis Edition

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It's amazing to me how downright eager the left is to stifle debate--and on such a wide variety of issues. Basically, they politicize everything, and then label any disagreement with their politicized positions to be politically incorrect. And their current favorite replacement for 'politically incorrect' is 'conspiracy theory.' This is the most pressing reason the progressive left must be defeated--their subordination of truth to leftist dogma. Even if you don't care about the noble project of human inquiry, you ought to care that political correctness can get us killed. Reflect on this: the evidence available to the hoi polloi makes the lab-leak hypothesis the most likely one. At worst, it's tied with the natural origin hypothesis. At the very worst, the lab-leak hypothesis is reasonable--it's clearly a contender. For whatever reason--probably something something racism something something Trump--the lab-leak hypothesis has been declared un-PC. So, if progressives have their way, that hypothesis should be categorically ruled out--IT'S A CONSPIRACY THEORY BIGOT!!!!111 Which presumably means that we shouldn't sink any money/energy into figuring out how it happened. Nor should we stop funding gain-of-function research in China. This is the sort of practical insanity that's consequent on prope-Lysenkoism. The PC left would rather risk killing us all than endure the outrage of having people disagree with them.