Ex-CDC director believes COVID-19 escaped from a lab, but cites no evidence

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Hard to take the article seriously when Wikipedia reports things like:


The CDC's actions during the pandemic have led to intense scrutiny of Redfield in congressional hearings and in media reports.[35]

Laurie Garrett, a science journalist who is a former senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, called Redfield "about the worst person you could think of to be heading the CDC at this time" and said "he lets his prejudices interfere with the science, which you cannot afford during a pandemic".[36] William Schaffner, an infectious-disease specialist at Vanderbilt University, said "Bob Redfield’s commitment to public health is completely strong," but said that Redfield has had trouble advocating effectively inside the White House.[37] Trump was said to like Redfield but to distrust the CDC.[37]

Redfield was the Trump administration's point man for delivering public health warnings on conservative talk radio.[38]
 
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More politicized "science" news from LiveScience. "Cites no evidence" is like a mantra intoned by people who are trying to put themselves to sleep. The article doesn't even bother to express whether Redfield was invited but unable to present evidence in the presumably compressed CNN interview.

The first point of evidence is the extraordinary coincidence that the virus originated in one of the few places on Earth where people study exactly that sort of virus. The article betrays no awareness of gain-of-function research. Nor is there any acknowledgement that China has done everything possible to conceal or eliminate evidence and prevent independent study.

This was an article written by someone who knew what she wanted to believe before she even started. That's not science. That's the worst kind of journalism.

Update, March 29: ABC News says "more than two dozen experts ... signed an open letter earlier this month calling for a new international inquiry" into the question of whether the virus resulted from a leak in the Wuhan lab. Assuming the writer of this LiveScience article was not outright lying to us, it appears she did not do even basic research. See https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-19-wuhan-origins-60-minutes-2021-03-28/
 
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More politicized "science" news from LiveScience. "Cites no evidence" is like a mantra intoned by people who are trying to put themselves to sleep. The article doesn't even bother to express whether Redfield was invited but unable to present evidence in the presumably compressed CNN interview.

The first point of evidence is the extraordinary coincidence that the virus originated in one of the few places on Earth where people study exactly that sort of virus. The article betrays no awareness of gain-of-function research. Nor is there any acknowledgement that China has done everything possible to conceal or eliminate evidence and prevent independent study.

This was an article written by someone who knew what she wanted to believe before she even started. That's not science. That's the worst kind of journalism.
I completely agree with Raywood. This article was offensive in its stupidity. Where is the scientific method? Do not publish any article that "Cites no evidence" or change the name of your publication from LiveScience to LiveNonsense. How dare you waste my time with obvious clickbait! GRADE F for lack of journalistic standards.
 
The reporting on this virus has been so incompetent, and so corrupt, that if the truth ever does come out, no one will believe it.

Whoever believes journalism is a science or an art, is mistaken on both accounts.