that phrases disappeared a lab it sounds like marvel movie or comic book. when senator tom cotton called for investigation. the washington post said tom cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus conspiracy theory 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 if i could put it that way of our media we are too polarized to see scientific issues for their own sake without putting a political gloss on them. don mcneil wrote a 2020 piece new coronavirus is clearly not a lab leak scientists say. the paper spiked it because of its own doubts. when the wall street journal reported last year on emerging circumstantial evidence of a chinese lab leak and president biden ordered an intelligence probe, which turned out to be inconclusive, the media s rah approach shifted. facebook lifted its ban. the washington post fact