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Debating the Lab Leak Hypothesis and Fauci's Emails with Matt Taibbi
1:15:43 - 1:24:45 (09:02)
Matt Taibbi discusses the nervousness in accusing China of causing a global pandemic and the prioritization of focusing internally as a country during the pandemic. He also mentions the lab leak hypothesis and the censorship of it as disinformation by big tech.
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If it had been revealed in February 2020 that Dr. Fauci had funded the Wuhan lab responsible for the COVID-19 outbreak, his career would have been over.
1:15:43 - 1:18:59 (03:16)
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If it had been revealed in February 2020 that Dr. Fauci had funded the Wuhan lab responsible for the COVID-19 outbreak, his career would have been over. But instead, misleading information and censorship allowed the lab leak theory to be labeled as a conspiracy theory.
ChapterDebating the Lab Leak Hypothesis and Fauci's Emails with Matt Taibbi
EpisodeE64: Antitrust standards & enforcement, tech repricing, lab leak obfuscation, E63 reactions & more
PodcastAll-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
This podcast episode discusses the origins of COVID-19 and Dr. Fauci's emails, debating whether he was funding gain of research and attempting to cover it up.
1:18:59 - 1:21:27 (02:28)
Summary
This podcast episode discusses the origins of COVID-19 and Dr. Fauci's emails, debating whether he was funding gain of research and attempting to cover it up. The guest, Jamie Metzl, provides a good contextualization of these matters, focusing on the lab leak and the lab leak cover-up, but ultimately concludes that he doesn't know what the virus's origin is.
ChapterDebating the Lab Leak Hypothesis and Fauci's Emails with Matt Taibbi
EpisodeE64: Antitrust standards & enforcement, tech repricing, lab leak obfuscation, E63 reactions & more
PodcastAll-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
The ability to bioengineer pathogenic organisms is becoming ubiquitous, making an honest accounting of what happened with COVID-19 crucial for understanding the importance of gain-of-function research.
1:21:27 - 1:24:45 (03:17)
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The ability to bioengineer pathogenic organisms is becoming ubiquitous, making an honest accounting of what happened with COVID-19 crucial for understanding the importance of gain-of-function research. Formalizing this research will help ensure that it is not ignored in the future.