TK Mashup: The Lab Leak “Conspiracy Theory”
We still don t know what caused the pandemic, but that s not the issue here. The concept of telling the public you re this certain of something when you quite obviously are not is at least somewhat new, both in politics and in media. The crucial problem shown in this reel is the complete absence of humility about the possibility of error. The most well-meaning scientists make mistakes even the famous tale of the discovery of HIV s Patient Zero later fell into question thanks to genetic analysis and there was a time not long ago when no responsible press outlet would have declared any hypothesis off-limits before the mystery had been solved.
Orfalea does a great job here using everything from Bill and Ted s Excellent Adventure to Fahrenheit 451 to show the dangerously moronic certainty of modern propaganda. The origins of Covid-19 remain a mystery, but another Whodunit is why curiosity and the spirit of free inquiry have been made taboo in a business where those qualities were once prerequisites.
We can be pretty sure though.