Aug 2, 2020 07:37 AM
Conspiracy theories are like herpes. Once a person is exposed, he's infected for life and cannot be cured. Worse, the patient is vulnerable to more conspiracy theories.
https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/07/30/her...ists-14944
INTRO: While much remains unknown about SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, we do know this: Like others before it, the new virus evolved naturally, perhaps in bats, before "jumping" into humans. A paper published in Nature Medicine explains that the genome of the virus strongly supports this narrative and that purposeful genetic engineering by humans is far-fetched.
No matter. The conspiracy lives. The Organic Consumers Association, which promotes the organic industry and is a top funder of the anti-GMO conspiracy website U.S. Right to Know (USRTK), just published an article that says: "Despite an ongoing cover-up by government authorities, the biotech industry, the military industrial complex and the mass media, there is growing scientific consensus that the COVID-19 virus was created and (most likely accidentally) leaked from a dual-use military/civilian lab in Wuhan, China."
Good grief. There are at least three conspiracies in that one sentence: (1) A massive cover-up; (2) the coronavirus was created; and (3) the Wuhan lab serves a military purpose. Let's debunk them one by one. First, it is essentially impossible for there to be a cover-up involving the government, biotech industry, the military-industrial complex, and the mass media... (MORE)
https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/07/30/her...ists-14944
INTRO: While much remains unknown about SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, we do know this: Like others before it, the new virus evolved naturally, perhaps in bats, before "jumping" into humans. A paper published in Nature Medicine explains that the genome of the virus strongly supports this narrative and that purposeful genetic engineering by humans is far-fetched.
No matter. The conspiracy lives. The Organic Consumers Association, which promotes the organic industry and is a top funder of the anti-GMO conspiracy website U.S. Right to Know (USRTK), just published an article that says: "Despite an ongoing cover-up by government authorities, the biotech industry, the military industrial complex and the mass media, there is growing scientific consensus that the COVID-19 virus was created and (most likely accidentally) leaked from a dual-use military/civilian lab in Wuhan, China."
Good grief. There are at least three conspiracies in that one sentence: (1) A massive cover-up; (2) the coronavirus was created; and (3) the Wuhan lab serves a military purpose. Let's debunk them one by one. First, it is essentially impossible for there to be a cover-up involving the government, biotech industry, the military-industrial complex, and the mass media... (MORE)