You've got to wonder when people are going to learn not to confess their corrupted professional ethics in emails.
The emails unveiled this week reveal no good scientific reason at all for why these leading virologists changed their minds and became deniers rather than believers in even the remote possibility of a lab leak, all in just a few days in February 2020. No new data, no new arguments. But they do very clearly reveal a blatant political reason for the volte-face. Speculating about a lab leak, said Ron Fouchier, a Dutch researcher, might ‘do unnecessary harm to science in general and science in China in particular’. Francis Collins was pithier, worrying about ‘doing great potential harm to science and international harmony’. Contradicting Donald Trump, protecting science’s reputation at all costs and keeping in with those who dole out large grants are pretty strong incentives to change one’s mind.And then they whine that no one will believe the science. I believe in science, but not in all scientists.
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Whenever white-coat researchers and high-ranking leaders (in uniforms or suits)discuss potentially embarrassing matters between themselves, it's always presented in the vein of 'protecting the world,' when in fact it's really all about 'protecting our world, which is the only one important enough to matter in any discussion.'
I believe humans obey money, power, fear, and authority.
I believe this is a weakness of slaves however.
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