Fauci reverses: Maybe the coronavirus didn’t emerge naturally after all HotAir

Was it the widely read essay by science writer Nicholas Wade arguing that a leak is the most plausible explanation that swayed him? Was it the letter co-signed by 18 eminent scientists a few weeks ago challenging the WHO s skepticism about a lab accident? Was it the report put together by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee noting significant circumstantial evidence that the virus escaped from Wuhan s Institute of Virology?

What s sinister about the early consensus joined by Fauci that the virus arose naturally, writes Matthew Crawford, is that it seemed driven less by evidence than by the fact of consensus itself. And that consensus was driven partly by political considerations, not scientific ones.

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I sense here a song coming on, such as Thomas Pynchon is prone to pen. Unfortunately, I lack the talent, even though I possess the spirit. But the verse would feature the refrain “Science! Oh Science!”