Lysenkoism Watch: The COVID Lab-Leak Deception

This is basically the same thing that's happening with:

• Climate change.
• ("Trans")gender ideology
• The "social construction" of everything
• BLM / police anti-black genocide / "systemic racism"
• Russiagate

In each case, the institutions captured by the left semi-believe what they're saying--in the way that the religious often semi-believe the miraculous tales told by their religion--then faith / motivated belief / political commitment fill the gap. Factions often cheat, but what's unusual about progressivism is that this kind of cheating is not a bug it's a feature. It's a principle--an ideal. This is political correctness--which stands opposed to ordinary, y'know, correct correctness...  With respect to science, it's Lysenkoism.

   Progressivism descends from Leninism, and so from Marxism. Belief in the unbelievable is a crucial component of that radioactive political pseudoscience. No surprise that it is a replacement for religion. Belief in the unbelieved--and unbelievable--is an important part of what it is to be a true believer. As others have said: you manifest your orthodoxy by manifesting your willingness to accept even the patently false. Look, anybody can believe (or quasi-believe) a plausible lie... It takes a true believer to believe a patently crazy one. Credo quia absurdum est.

   I'm sure you, like me, look on the vast array of insane views the left now rabidly, feverishly insists are true...and you wonder How can they honestly believe these things??  

   Well, the story of COVID origins provides the answer to all the other cases, too: they don't. 

   Or, rather: they semi-believe. They want to believe. And political dogmatism bridges the remaining gap.