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How the Media Failed Its COVID Test: The Truth Behind the Lab Leak and Masking Debates
Plain English with Derek Thompson
What Is the Lab Leak Theory or Hypothesis?
Derek J. Lister: The media's reaction to the lab league early on was a kind of mess of conflation. He says it would be another five months or so before really the mainstream media was looking closely. "I think that there was a liberal or mainstream media leaning liberal eagerness to disprove the lab league hypothesis"
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