China's New Virus Outbreak - What We Know So Far; US-China Relations: Hacking - China Update

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4. So, is this guy another hack reporter pushing the "flat-earth" virology of the lab leak hypothesis at 4:47 in the video?

Should his reporting even be taken seriously? Has he even bothered to check on what data is out there? talked with actual virologists?

How about the following suggestion: maybe...Martians planted the virus as revenge for the plot of War of the Worlds too? Some people just wrote that statement after all, so maybe he should report that with a deadpan affect and an air of seriousness. Also, some people think the Earth is flat.

His reporting might better belong in a hybrid group forum of foreign affairs and science fiction or MAGA conspiracy theories since his other source for his lab leak hypothesis is a (GOP/MAGA-led) US government report. Which congressional MAGA nutjobs are behind that? Johnson? Jordan? Massie? Keep in mind that that group is likely going to fall in behind RFK, Jr. and probably chase down every vaccine-related rabbit hole he might consider to be "profitably" exploitable. What is Kennedy after all other than merely a health grifter at this point? He has no knowledge of virology, yet unabashedly is anti-vax. His book on Fauci is a demonstrable piece of trash.

Anyway, this reporter's "credibility" might...ought to be reconsidered given his willingness to parrot such a claims that the lab leak hypothesis is "plausible" and is "the likely explanation".

Find the data, report on the data, and if there is no time of staff for that, maybe stories just to fill time should not be produced.

How many people died as a result of stupid takes on virology caused by rabbit-hole reporting? Far too many.