On the menu today: Today’s newsletter is a little bit about the Covid-19 lab-leak theory, a little bit about those social-media stories about notes left for waitresses, and a whole lot about what our culture deems newsworthy and important (and how the president of the United States shapes the world’s perceptions of what is important). Oh, and it’s also a little bit about the worst Commander in Washington since Daniel Snyder.
Ignoring China’s Covid Role . . . to Our Detriment
We now know that prominent U.S. virologists did not want DARPA and the U.S. government to know what kind of gain-of-function experiments were being done on coronaviruses found in bats at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. James Meigs, writing over at Commentary:
The December breakthrough came when the medical watchdog group U.S. Right to Know unearthed an early draft of a 2018 grant proposal for a “Project DEFUSE.” The proposal outlines a joint project between [Ralph] Baric’s UNC lab and a team headed by WIV ...
