WSJ editorial board slams Fauci, media and calls for congressional investigation

[Darth Omar]

because Trump Derangement Syndrome would not allow them to look at anything critically if Trump said it so.
instead it was "conspiracy theory"

because you are not retired mop swinger, and because Fauci has more positions on COVID
then the Kama Sutra has on sexual positions

Lol.

I used to think the cover up was just to keep the focus on Trump [and that’s part of it] but now I think it’s deeper than that. It’s a better than 50/50 chance Fauci and some other individuals and institutions are implicated in the origin of the virus.

If so, there hasn’t been a scandal that begins to compare with this.

[martin]

Maybe they can’t.

While both sides are at fault, liberal Democrats on the whole are better educated and more literate than Trump Republicans. The differences aren't close and they carry through in the superior depth and balance of liberal sources.

Forgot to mention this yesterday.

[Darth Omar]

While both sides are at fault, liberal Democrats on the whole are better educated and more literate than Trump Republicans. The differences aren't close and they carry through in the superior depth and balance of liberal sources.

Forgot to mention this yesterday.

But they sorely lack common sense. A good many of them are hopelessly naive; way too trusting of government and especially ‘experts’ and they couldn’t pour piss out of boot if the instructions were on the heel.

Just thought I’d throw that in there.

[martin]

But they sorely lack common sense. A good many of them are hopelessly naive; way too trusting of government and especially ‘experts’ and they couldn’t pour piss out of boot if the instructions were on the heel.

Just thought I’d throw that in there.

Can’t think of any liberal idea as naive as that of the mob that imagined it could reverse the election by attacking the Capitol building.

[Darth Omar]

Can’t think of any liberal idea as naive as that of the mob that imagined it could reverse the election by attacking the Capitol building.

I forgot to add that they dreadfully prone to group think.

Mobs are irrational by definition. For example, it’s irrational to think history can be changed by toppling statues.

[Micawber]

Good luck moving the ball down the road with this publicity stunt for the dirty scum Repuke treasonous base.

Before this is over there will be a statue of Dr Fauci.

[Micawber]

But they sorely lack common sense. A good many of them are hopelessly naive; way too trusting of government and especially ‘experts’ and they couldn’t pour piss out of boot if the instructions were on the heel.

Just thought I’d throw that in there.


You lack the expert credentials to have a valid opinion on any relevant expertise you inveterate liar. See how that works?
That's why it's called expertise. It's made to keep simpletons out.

[martin]

I forgot to add that they dreadfully prone to group think.

Mobs are irrational by definition. For example, it’s irrational to think history can be changed by toppling statues.

That idea is about changing the present; the history remains, ugly as it was. Lee, for example, committed treason and bore responsibility for the deaths and sufferings of thousands of loyal citizens. That history doesn't change, but the celebration of it is changing.

[Darth Omar]

That idea is about changing the present; the history remains, ugly as it was. Lee, for example, committed treason and bore responsibility for the deaths and sufferings of thousands of loyal citizens. That history doesn't change, but the celebration of it is changing.

Conflating celebration with recognition is irrational.

What ‘faultless individuals’ from our national history are worthy of being celebrated?

[reagansghost]

But they sorely lack common sense. A good many of them are hopelessly naive; way too trusting of government and especially ‘experts’ and they couldn’t pour piss out of boot if the instructions were on the heel.

Just thought I’d throw that in there.

meanwhile you've been vaxxed

do you know scummy that makes you look? you're a piece of shit

[AProudLefty]

The U.S. knows something about the research conducted at the WIV, because American taxpayer dollars helped fund it. This was the crux of last week’s dispute between Sen. Rand Paul and Anthony Fauci, who had cast doubt on the lab-leak hypothesis in the past. In their latest bout, the Kentucky Senator accused Dr. Fauci of lying to Congress, a federal crime, when he said this year that the National Institutes of Health had never funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan. The exchange descended into shouting.

The reality is complicated. The NIH gave almost $600,000 to the WIV through a nonprofit over several years to study bat coronaviruses. Mr. Paul cited a 2017 paper from WIV researchers that included experiments combining parts of viruses to study how to better infect human cells. But Dr. Fauci said the project was “judged by qualified staff up and down the chain as not being gain-of-function.”

This might be technically true, as a 2014 federal government definition describes such research as that which “increase the ability of infectious agents to cause disease by enhancing its pathogenicity or by increasing its transmissibility.” But some scientists think the government definition is too limited and can allow de facto gain-of-function research to bypass safety protocols. Rutgers molecular biologist Richard Ebright says the NIH-funded work “was—unequivocally—gain-of-function research.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/anthony...bshare_twitter
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Rand Paul was right, of course. Engineering a virus to where it is able to infect human cells IS gain of function research.

But look at the Fauci definition of GOF research: “increase the ability of infectious agents to cause disease by enhancing its pathogenicity or by increasing its transmissibility.

If your brain has a logical bent to it, you might recognize that as a distinction without a difference and at least one [uncompromised] and respected molecular biologist would agree with you. If you add a widget to a mouse trap so that it traps chickens, the mouse trap has *gained function*.

In principle, the definition of GOF is that ridiculously straightforward. Similarly, when virologists add a spike protein that enables a non-transmissible virus to enter human cells—and become at least theoretically transmissible, THAT is GOF research.

Clearly, the government definition of GOF was ‘engineered’ to provide cover [in the form of plausible deniability] for Fauci and some others who have been collaborating with Chinese virologists on *gain of function research* for years. And they did this in spite of an Obama era ban on GOF research. Did Dr. Baric or other virologists teach Chinese virologists any lab techniques? Did they share gene splicing technology with them?

No wonder they wanted to bury the lab origin theory. This stinks.

An opinion piece.

[AProudLefty]

But they sorely lack common sense. A good many of them are hopelessly naive; way too trusting of government and especially ‘experts’ and they couldn’t pour piss out of boot if the instructions were on the heel.

Just thought I’d throw that in there.

[martin]

Conflating celebration with recognition is irrational.

What ‘faultless individuals’ from our national history are worthy of being celebrated?

Failing to see statues of military and political leaders as memorials that celebrate them is blindness. Benedict Arnold is “recognized” in history books as the general who led American forces to victory in the pivotal battle of Saratoga but you won’t find his statue there.

[martin]

Conflating celebration with recognition is irrational.

What ‘faultless individuals’ from our national history are worthy of being celebrated?

To answer the question with an example, George Washington is celebrated in spite of his “faults” for his great service to the Republic.
That rationale collapses with Lee.

[Darth Omar]

To answer the question with an example, George Washington is celebrated in spite of his “faults” for his great service to the Republic.
That rationale collapses with Lee.

He either owned slaves or did nothing to free them.

So who is ‘the spotless’ historical figure whose statue would be safe from our domestic Taliban wannabes?