{"id":268337,"date":"2021-06-07T03:03:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T00:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/all-signs-point-to-a-lab-leak-and-other-commentary\/"},"modified":"2021-06-07T03:03:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T00:03:12","slug":"all-signs-point-to-a-lab-leak-and-other-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/all-signs-point-to-a-lab-leak-and-other-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"#All signs point to a lab leak and other commentary\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35c0c40091f\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35c0c40091f\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/all-signs-point-to-a-lab-leak-and-other-commentary\/#Scientists_All_Signs_Point_to_Lab_Leak\" >Scientists: All Signs Point to Lab Leak<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/all-signs-point-to-a-lab-leak-and-other-commentary\/#From_the_left_Left_Right_v_Media_Priesthood\" >From the left: Left &amp; Right v. Media Priesthood<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/all-signs-point-to-a-lab-leak-and-other-commentary\/#Iconoclast_The_Middle-Class_Uprising\" >Iconoclast: The Middle-Class Uprising<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/all-signs-point-to-a-lab-leak-and-other-commentary\/#Foreign_desk_Chinas_Big_Baby_Problem\" >Foreign desk: China\u2019s Big Baby Problem<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/all-signs-point-to-a-lab-leak-and-other-commentary\/#Hate_watch_Keep_Anti-Semitism_Out_of_America\" >Hate watch: Keep Anti-Semitism Out of America<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#All signs point to a lab leak and other commentary\u00a0<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/wuhan-institute-of-virology.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Scientists_All_Signs_Point_to_Lab_Leak\"><\/span>Scientists: All Signs Point to Lab Leak<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cThe most compelling reason to favor the lab-leak hypothesis is firmly based in <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a>,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-science-suggests-a-wuhan-lab-leak-11622995184?mod=opinion_lead_pos5\">physician Steven Quay and physicist Richard Muller declare\u00a0in The Wall Street Journal<\/a>. There was already plenty of circumstantial evidence to support the theory, not least the fact that the only Chinese laboratory capable of handling coronavirus experiments h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ens to be located at the pandemic\u2019s ground zero. But more \u201cdamning\u201d is the presence of a foreign gene sequence that makes the COVID-19 virus more lethal to its victims. Such a sequence could only be artificially added in what\u2019s called gain-of-function research. Those who cling to the notion that the virus jumped naturally from animals to humans must explain why the coronavirus \u201creplicate the choice the lab\u2019s gain-of-function researchers would have made.\u201d Random mutation is hard to believe, and \u201cthe scientific evidence points to the conclusion that the virus was developed in a laboratory.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"From_the_left_Left_Right_v_Media_Priesthood\"><\/span>From the left: Left &amp; Right v. Media Priesthood<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Outrage in liberal circles that lefty journalist Glenn \u201cGreenwald appears on and helps provide content for \u2014 gasp! \u2014 right-wing <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/taibbi.substack.com\/p\/congratulations-elitists-liberals\">prompts Matt Taibbi<\/a> at TK <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> to explain that \u201cTrump conservatives and ACLU-raised liberals like myself, Greenwald and millions of others do have real common cause, against an epistemic revolution taking hold in America\u2019s political and media elite.\u201d The common enemy \u201cbelieves knowledge is too dangerous for the rabble and must be tightly regulated by a priesthood of \u2018experts\u2019\u200a\u201d \u2014 as in\u00a0the long suppression of valid concerns that COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese lab and of The Post\u2019s Hunter Biden reporting. \u201cIt\u2019s anti-democratic, un-American and naturally unites the residents of even the most extreme opposite ends of our national political spectrum.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Iconoclast_The_Middle-Class_Uprising\"><\/span>Iconoclast: The Middle-Class Uprising<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>A \u201cmiddle-class rebellion against the excesses of the left\u201d is \u201cgaining steam,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/middle-class-rebellion-against-progressives-gaining-steam-opinion-1597397\">cheers Joel Kotkin at Newsweek<\/a>. The media love the left\u2019s \u201cfocus on \u2018systemic racism,\u2019 coupled with a newfound and heavily enforced cultural conformism and the obsessive focus on a never-ending litany of \u00adimpending \u2018climate emergences,\u2019\u200a\u201d but \u201cthe progressive base is limited,\u201d just 8 percent of voters. \u201cParty-line journalists\u201d see President Biden as the \u201cchampion of the middle class,\u201d but \u201che undermines his pitch\u201d by \u00adrepeatedly adopting far-left policies. Only 3 percent of Americans \u201cview climate as their primary concern,\u201d but Biden\u2019s fixation on it will \u201caccelerate the current surge in \u00adenergy prices.\u201d And \u201cciting systemic racism won\u2019t clean the streets of New York, San Francisco and central Los Angeles from drug addicts, the mentally ill and the destitute,\u201d while not even a third of African Americans support defunding police. In short, progressivism is in trouble.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Foreign_desk_Chinas_Big_Baby_Problem\"><\/span>Foreign desk: China\u2019s Big Baby Problem<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In a bid to reverse China\u2019s rapid demographic decline caused by the one-child policy, Xi Jinping\u2019s regime last week loosened its anti-natal policy to allow married couples up to three children \u2014 but, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/spectator.us\/topic\/chinese-women-dont-want-more-children\/?fbclid=IwAR2p0Rdm_G6jwiaMyFPYWO2gul8qja5CIPdYnlda-hb9ZmN0lZQu_ICiCEg\">warns Cindy Yu at Spectator USA<\/a>, it\u2019s probably \u201ctoo little, too late.\u201d For one thing, small families have become culturally ingrained: After decades of the one-child policy, \u201cbrothers and sisters [are] something .\u2009.\u2009. on dubbed American sitcoms, as foreign and exotic as blue eyes and blonde hair.\u201d Then, too, \u201craising children in China is extortionate,\u201d with public education unavailable to many and private schools pricey \u2014\u00a0\u201cnot to mention the English and math tutoring; the music and dance lessons; all the sports clubs. For middle-class parents, there is immense social pressure to compete with each other. And now times that by three?\u201d Finally, there\u2019s the restless work culture. \u201cThe notorious \u2018996\u2019 regime, which refers to \u20189 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week,\u2019 is spreading from China\u2019s tech sector to other white-collar industries. It\u2019s hardly a family-friendly life.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Hate_watch_Keep_Anti-Semitism_Out_of_America\"><\/span>Hate watch: Keep Anti-Semitism Out of America<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/opinion\/my-family-fled-soviet-anti-semitism-never-expecting-to-encounter-it-in-the-us\/\">At JNS.org, Len Khodorkovsky reflects<\/a> on how \u201cshocking\u201d it is for a Jewish refugee like himself \u201cto witness the recent outbreak of anti-Semitic violence on the streets of the country\u201d where tolerance used to be \u201cmundane.\u201d\u00a0To keep America\u2019s promise alive, we must redouble our commitment to resisting Jew-hatred. <\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Compiled by The Post Editorial Board<\/em>\n            <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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