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On 3/17/2025 3:10 PM, john larkin wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:13:54 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 3/16/2025 10:26 AM, john larkin wrote:
>>>
>>> https://archive.is/CQzbl
>>>
>>
>> It's a click-bait title, she mostly just talks about what she wants to
>> talk about (seems to be catching the "I am being silenced"-bug as many
>> people with an audience of millions tend to) and uses weasel words like
>> "Some public health officials..." without actually naming names or
>> calling anyone specific out.
>>
>> Likely because the evidence "we were badly misled" doesn't amount to
>> much and so if she puts what she wants to say too late in the op ed
>> nobody's going to read that far.
>>
>> Soooo she's still an Ivy League academic. NYT is still the NYT
> 
> "Trust the science" actually means "Trust the scientists" which is not
> at all the same thing.
> 

Kristian G. Andersen probably regrets that one text he sent where he 
vaguely supported the lab leak hypothesis, I guess it doesn't matter how 
many thousands of times he later says variants of "I thought that for a 
bit but realized I was being stupid" after that, conspiracy theorists 
will treat that one time he said something that they like as God's truth 
and evidence of a cover-up, not evidence of an academic being stupid 
which does happen sometimes but isn't nearly as interesting.

Thinking multiple things at the same time or changing one's mind does 
happen but "experts" seem to almost always be punished for that kind of 
flip-flopping, unlike being a politician where saying things like "I was 
a Communist, that is until I realized I hated Communism" or "I was for 
the war, before I was against it" seems to be some kind of rite of 
passage to the big time.

Perhaps it's just the optics of it looking like the flip was done 
covertly rather than the kind of clearly self-serving flip-flopping 
politicians tend to do out in the open, the latter's a more honest kind 
of lying I guess.