Andrew Noymer: COVID-19: The Evidence Lopsidedly Favors a Lab Leak

As it always has.

Well, I think there were a few brief periods when it wasn't clear, or when the needle pointed slightly in the other direct after some big pro-zoonotic publication. I'd have to go back and look at my past ranting about this.

Perhaps it looked different from the perspective of experts--but, if so, they didn't or couldn't adequately articulate their reasons in the public discussion. And many of the reasons that were represented as expert opinion in favor of the zoonotic hypothesis were outright bad.

Wait, there was the stuff that was hot for awhile about finding DNA in the drains at the wet market...hard to remember the details of that argument now, and I'm too lazy to look it up.

Of course we still could be surprised.

But it's very, very clear that the bizarre anti-lab-leak propaganda was just more Lysenkoism, basically from the blue team. The lab-leak hypothesis was never crazy.

And why politicize this issue?

It's almost as if they're not happy unless they can politicize every issue that comes along.

Though, TBF, the red team often does its fair share. See e.g. the anti-vax hysteria among the reds. Holy crap did they ever lose it about that. The blues were way nutty about it, too--treating it as almost some kind of sacrament, and sometimes identifying themselves as "team Pfizer" or "team Moderna"...weird...

Crazy times.