was dismissed and treated as nonsensical by the media. tell us about what your perspective is on that aspect of this story? right, so we see lately in the last few months that this story about the lab leak hypothesis actually holding water and has gained quite a lot of attraction. it is now considered in the mainstream as of yesterday in vanity fair published it an amazing piece come i think 12,000 word article. it doesn t get more mainstream than periodicals like vanity fair. and so for the rest of us and of hipsters who early on entertained this thought, we are kind of looking at this in a bit of the shop because it seemed like all of the sudden, the dam broke and it was okay to talk about this. and the question, of course, why? so we can think about maybe a couple of reasons why that is the case. at least you know in january, a
blindness if i can put it that way of our media too polarized to see scientific issues for their own sake and without putting a political glass on them. and everyone was sort of blindsighted right from the start by these two letters we ve just discussed into thinking that natural emergence was a possible solution, in fact, two possible scenarios we have no direct evidence for either of them. so we must keep our minds open. we don t know for sure the origin of the virus. it is just we ve got these two possible scenarios. but if you look at all of the evidence, and ask yourself well which scenario explains all of these pangts facts better on present evidence it seems to me at least that lab escape hypothesis explains it better. so that s where we are. but it is sort of complicateed conclusion to arrive at and
accumulating evidence until i ve found i had enough to write a very, very long 11,000 word article. mark: and why do you think you re one of the few people who was curious enough and motivated enough to do this? i mean, there are people still the new york times and washington post were there are people cbs nbc, abc a virus that s killed a enormous amount of people that shut down our economy that changed the way we govern ourselves and media will pick up stories on things that are no consequence whatsoever and yet here you are, i guess you re semiretired and here you are you re looking at this saying you know what i m going to get to the bottom of this. i mean, what accounts for that do you think? you were in this industry a long time. i think we we see a sustained chinese propaganda effort at work. but you know, more than that, it was just the
didn t see through large holes of the anderson and those letters that so much shaped public opinion. but with the journalist going along with the natural emergence theory editor who is i guess depending on their advice went along too. and in additionally, the whole issue became horribly politicized essentially by president trump saying that virus escaped from wuhan lab. and not providing any evidence, now i m pretty sure my guess is that what his intelligence service said to him was exactly the same as they ve been saying under the biden administration then we cannot rule out the possibility of lab escape and mr. trump i fear dropped all of those caveats and announced as if it were outright fact. so therefore, everyone who was with president trump sort of favored lab escape and everyone against
didn t see through large holes of the anderson and those letters that so much shaped public opinion. but with the journalist going along with the natural emergence theory editor who is i guess depending on their advice went along too. and in additionally, the whole issue became horribly politicized essentially by president trump saying that virus escaped from wuhan lab. and not providing any evidence, now i m pretty sure my guess is that what his intelligence service said to him was exactly the same as they ve been saying under the biden administration then we cannot rule out the possibility of lab escape and mr. trump i fear dropped all of those caveats and announced as if it were outright fact. so therefore, everyone who was with president trump sort of favored lab escape and everyone against