Matt Shapiro's Marginally Compelling

Matt Shapiro's Marginally Compelling

When Experts Attack... Other Experts

When politics intrudes into a scientific field and experts disagree, narratives become an enemy to truth-seeking

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Two months ago, I interviewed Alina Chan on the origins of COVID and she explained in enormous detail why the theory that COVID escaped from a lab in Wuhan is not terribly implausible.

Was COVID Created Or Discovered?

Last week, veteran science journalist Nicholas Wade published an extremely long piece on the origins of COVID in which he posited that not …

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