To Deny the “Lab Leak” COVID Theory, the NYT and WPost Use Dubious and Conflicted Sources
Despite the collapse of Daszak’s reputation and credibility due both to his undisclosed conflicts of interest and repeated deceit and even lying The New York Times continues to cite him as one of its primary sources on the question of COVID’s origins. Just two weeks ago, the paper published an article designed to affirm the claim that evidence had once again emerged showing that COVID was naturally occurring. The first known patient sickened with the coronavirus was a vendor in a large Wuhan animal market, wrote the Paper of Record about a new paper in Science, arguing that these findings will revive, though certainly not settle, the debate over whether the pandemic started with a spillover from wildlife sold at the market, a leak from a Wuhan virology lab or some other way. It had been previously suggested that the first case of COVID infection was found in an accountant who lived miles away from the wet market, suggesting that the wet market was likely not the source. But this new finding claiming that the first patient was a wet market vendor, not the accountant would further bolster the view that it has natural origins.
The NYT is an anti-source of information. You can infer from what it denies what might be true. I did not always think this but the scales have fallen from my eyes.