Re:The risky bat-virus engineering that links America to Wuhan
by armada651 on Friday July 02, 2021 @05:15PM
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I don't think you need to make conspiratorial allegations about the info being judged "dangerous" to explain it.
It simply got politicized just as masks got politicized. The more one side advocates it the more the other side discredits it.
Re:The risky bat-virus engineering that links America to Wuhan
by nobodyandproud on Friday July 02, 2021 @06:04PM
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Except in this case, the left tried to discredit it.
If Trump kept his mouth shut, it may have gone down differently (that is, less politicized).
Re:The risky bat-virus engineering that links America to Wuhan
by ravel-bar-foo on Saturday July 03, 2021 @12:34AM
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Trump saying something should have no bearing on whether it is true or whether it deserves consideration by the public. I see this as the media over-reacting to Trump (and to Tom Cotton) and now they have egg on their faces.
The urge to ban that info in social sites came much later, when politicians got the message and considered that info dangerous(and because the West depended on Chinese supplies).
Most politicians are so dumb from the scientific and technical side that it took a long time for them to understand.
But it gives us and important lesson: If we want to inform ourselves, we should use alternatives to centralized social media.