Section proposed for Investigations into the origin of COVID-19 article edit
An early hypothesis with the "lab" name on it came from James Lyons-Weiler, who said that he had “broken the coronavirus code” and found nucleotide sequences in its genome indicating that it had come from a laboratory working on coronavirus vaccines.[1]
Media edit
U.S. media coverage of the lab leak hypothesis has shifted dramatically, going from giving little credence to it at first, to being much less skeptical about it.[2] The shift occured around April 2021. Newspapers and media outlets initial opposition to the idea mimicked mainstream science, which at the time were very dismissal of the lab leak hypothesis.[3]
The initial harsh reception of the theory by U.S. Media reflected political influences, and a desire to not contravene a campaign by researchers who were funded to study viruses who issued open letters labelling the lab leak hypothesis a "conspiracy theory".[4]
Natasha Loder, Health policy editor of The Economist, said she thinks the US media was initially single-minded in their rejection of the lab leak theory and that it was for political reasons [5] Paul Farhi, journalist from The Washington Post, went as far as to say that it was wrong for US Media to have said, early in the pandemic, that the lab leak theory was wrong[6]
The New York Times is popular and known as a predominantly liberal medium with a sentiment close to that of the Democratic Party, whereas the Washington Post and Foreign Policy which was first founded by famed Harvard professor Samuel Huntington in 1970 and has been recently acquired by the Washington Post tend to be conservative in close proximity to the sentiment of the GOP. The WSJ, as a predominantly pro-business-finance journal, privileges the concerns of both middle-income and high-income consumers and finds itself welcomed by both the elites of the Democratic Party and the GOP and beyond.[7]
Source dump and experiments edit
Investigations themselves edit
- [8] The Wade article
- [9] Vanity Fair investigation
Assessments of investigations edit
- [10] SBM skepticism
- [11] Currently cited on Misinformation article regarding media change in tone
- [12] Amy Davidson Sorkin opinion piece on The New Yorker includes assesment of the WHO report as "not credible" among other useful bit of information
Other edit
- [13] WaPo timeline
- [14] Might be better elsewhere?
- [15] Australian reporter being used in echo chambers to create false ilussion of big story going on
- ^ "The origin of SARS-CoV-2, revisited | Science-Based Medicine". sciencebasedmedicine.org. Science Based Medicine Blog. 31 May 2021.
- ^ CNN, Katie Bo Williams, Zachary Cohen and Natasha Bertrand. "Exclusive: Intel agencies scour reams of genetic data from Wuhan lab in Covid origins hunt". CNN.
{{cite news}}:|last1=has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "The media called the 'lab leak' story a 'conspiracy theory.' Now it's prompted corrections — and serious new reporting". Washington Post. The Washington Post.
- ^ Thacker, Paul D (8 July 2021). "The covid-19 lab leak hypothesis: did the media fall victim to a misinformation campaign?". BMJ: n1656. doi:10.1136/bmj.n1656.
- ^ "Did covid-19 leak from a Chinese lab? | The Economist". The Economist. June 18 of 2021. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Media coverage of COVID-19 lab leak theory under scrutiny". CBS News. June 17 2021. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Jia, Wenshan; Lu, Fangzhu (March 2021). "US media's coverage of China's handling of COVID-19: Playing the role of the fourth branch of government or the fourth estate?". Global Media and China. 6 (1): 8–23. doi:10.1177/2059436421994003.
- ^ Wade, Nicholas (2021-05-05). "The origin of COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora's box at Wuhan?". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
- ^ Eban, Katherine. "The Lab-Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19's Origins". Vanity Fair.
- ^ "The origin of SARS-CoV-2, revisited | Science-Based Medicine". sciencebasedmedicine.org. 2021-05-31.
- ^ Swanson, Ian (2021-05-25). "The Memo: Media face hard questions on Trump, Wuhan lab". TheHill.
- ^ Sorkin, Amy Davidson. "The Battle Over the Coronavirus Lab-Leak Theory". The New Yorker.
- ^ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/05/25/timeline-how-wuhan-lab-leak-theory-suddenly-became-credible/.
{{cite news}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ "How Distrust of Donald Trump Muddled the COVID-19 'Lab Leak' Debate". Time.
- ^ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/14/covid-origins-australias-role-in-the-feedback-loop-promoting-the-wuhan-lab-leak-theory.
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