there is something nih can do to help put down this destructive conspiracy. fauci's reply, do nothing. it is a shiny object that will go away in time. most of the mainstream media minimized the lab leak theory and facebook barred any postings on it. when president trump expressed support for the idea, this piece in the guardian was typical. nobody is buying trumps wuhan lab theory. >> a lot of people on the right love that phrase. escape from the lab. >> senator tom cotton -- said tom cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus conspiracy theory that was already debunked. "the new york times," senator tom cotton repeats fringe theory of coronavirus origins. not all journalists were so dismissive. >> it was the blindness of if i can put it that way, of our media. we are to polarize to see scientific issues for their own