Thursday, June 3, 2021

D.L. Gardner: What is a Recipe for Chaos?

What if scientists decided to create a virus that could kill all humanity? What if the scientific community had become so compromised by the woke cancel culture that no one would risk his/her job by challenging weak theories? What if the media and academia had become so politicized that the vast majority believed a fictional narrative and failed to investigate false claims? We would have a recipe for chaos.

Nicholas Wade, a science writer, editor, and author who has worked on the staff of Nature, Science, and the New York Times, addressed the question of the title of his article published May 5, 2021, in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: “The origin of COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan?”


Until recently, the media has nearly unanimously “debunked” the theory that the virus was created in the Wuhan Institute of Virology and escaped in the fall of 2019. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo began an investigation into the origin of the virus in fall of 2020, but President Biden shut it down in March. Suddenly last week President Biden reversed course and asked the intelligence community to research the origin of Covid-19 and report findings to him within 90 days. 


Go back to the beginning. Wade learned that a scientist named Shi Zheng-li aka “Bat Lady,” China’s leading expert on bat viruses, and Ralph S. Baric, an eminent coronavirus researcher at the University of North Carolina, received a grant “to create novel coronaviruses with the highest possible infectivity for human cells.” He also learned Shi’s work “was funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a part of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). And grant proposals that funded her work, which are a matter of public record, specify exactly what she planned to do with the money.” Grants were awarded in FY 2018 and 2019. 


If the scientific community were aware of this work, and they should have been because the grants were public knowledge, why didn’t someone raise alarms? Did Shi and her team create the virus? China has closed all the records and continues to deny the virus originated in the Wuhan lab. 


To muddy the water, two groups of scientists published strong denials the virus could have been made in the lab. One group of virologists wrote in the Lancet in February, 2020, “We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin.” The scientists “overwhelmingly conclude that this coronavirus originated in wildlife.” Wade noted, “the signatories of the Lancet letter were behaving as poor scientists: They were assuring the public of facts they could not know for sure were true.”


Armed with this and other weak science, media and academics viciously attacked President Trump and other conservatives for speculating the virus might have come out of the Wuhan lab. The narrative of the LEFT was, ‘Trump is bad and lies about everything.’ 


Ironically, those who were attacking Trump were deceived and merely following the political science of their own LEFT narrative. What if scientists, media, academics and ideologues had not so sold out to the narrative, but had maintained a semblance of rational thought enough to consider the theory that the virus could have been engineered in the lab? 


The LEFT narrative is a recipe for chaos.

 

Daniel L. Gardner is a syndicated columnist who lives in Starkville, MS. You may contact him at PJandMe2@gmail.com. 

 

28 comments:

Anonymous said...

Drivel as always, but certainly true that one should not blindly follow narratives, be they from the right or the "LEFT".

Anonymous said...

Another good reminder for the kids not to do drugs. You could end up with pillow delusions or whatever happened to Daniel.

Anonymous said...

I’d be curious how Daniel explains the unfounded claims made by his side. There’s more than I can list here, but Hydroxychloroquine and injecting bleach are a couple that jump out. Was Trump also blinded by “woke culture” like the scientists?

Calm Down said...

@6:06pm

Trump, as I'm sure you well know, never said to inject bleach.

Politico, a liberal site:
“We tested bleach,” he said at one point. “I can tell you that bleach will kill the virus in five minutes.”

“A question that probably some of you are thinking of if you’re totally into that world,” Trump began, clearly thinking the question himself, “So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light — and I think you said that that hasn't been checked, but you're going to test it. And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way, and I think you said you're going to test that, too. It sounds interesting. And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs, and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/23/trump-bleach-one-year-484399

The article insinuates and makes fun, but with Trump's own words states that he in fact did not tell anyone to inject bleach.

Politifact (again, very liberal) rates Biden's claim that Trump said that as 'mostly false'.

"Trump did not explicitly recommend ingesting a disinfectant like bleach."

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jul/11/joe-biden/no-trump-didnt-tell-americans-infected-coronavirus/

Full transcript and video here:
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-suggests-infecting-disinfectant-video-transcript-2020-4?op=1

Of course, there is a treatment involving ultraviolet light that has shown some promise. Trump obviously had heard some discussion and was referring to it in his remarks. Here's the link to that:

https://apnews.com/press-release/accesswire/b44f4531071e6204023f7b8e16f59d4b

I don't think you are ignorant. I think you are a useful idiot.


Anonymous said...

@7:17
It is almost as if they already know that low info libtards will believe it. Just like they still to this day believe jokes made by Tina Fey are actual quotes made by Sarah Palin.

Anonymous said...

Yo can be sure Biden's reversal is because somebody decided there needs to be a real cover-up and not just a blanket of silence and denouncing every question as a "conspiracy theory."

Anonymous said...

7:17 - If you can watch that video and feel reassured that the president was a competent leader than I just don’t know what else to say to you. Please don’t have kids.

Anonymous said...

The problem with Trump and his administration was that he speculated about everything and outright claimed things were true that were nothing more than his own baseless opinion. He was the wolf who cried sheep, then denied he cried sheep and blamed it on woke cancel culture. We all know that Trump was in a pissing match with China at the time and desperately wanted to blame them, so taking him at his word when everyone knew he had no proof was not a reasonable position.

Anonymous said...

Somebody remind me who this clown is. Does he have a day job?

Anonymous said...

Oh God, I had forgotten about the light bulb inside the body comment.

Calm Down said...

@8:43PM

Let's review Trump's term in office for competence:

A strong economic plan that accelerated GDP, resulting in record employment, especially for blacks and hispanics.

Increased respect for the US in regard to foreign policy that put American interests first.

Peace breaking out all across the Middle East (in spite of keeping the US promise to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel rather than continue to kick the can down the road by both Republicans and Democrats0>

Relative peace on our southern border with immigration under some sort of control.

Promises made and kept.

Quite a few judges appointed, although the jury is still out on most of them. I expect they'll be made of stronger stuff than anything Biden puts forward.

And every accomplishment was made in the face of united opposition from the Democrats, establishment GOP, the upper ranks of every intelligence agency (reckon we could do with just 16 of them instead of 17? anyone?), and the corporate media hacks.

On the other side of the ledger, we have:

A few ill considered mean tweets that hurt some feelings.

I'll spare you a comparison of Joe Xiden's current record at the 6 month mark, but I'd predict it'll be downhill faster each month going forward.

Anonymous said...

9:08 - You're talking about 8:55...correct?

Anonymous said...

Right, he didn't suggest injecting bleach. He suggested injecting Lysol. But look over there -- a librul!

Anonymous said...

7:17

You're calling Politico a liberal news source? lol

Anonymous said...

@9:40 You left out much lower taxes, mine dropped over two grand a year. Sanctions on Russian and China both who are eating our lunch now and keeping little rocket man from firing rockets over Japan. And there’s a lot more. But you’ll never convince these manure eaters here that it was true. I figure about a year from now they’ll be begging Trump to run again.

Anonymous said...

Anyone who believes that this virus just suddenly jumped from a bat to a human also believes wrestling is real. Anyone not suffering from numbskulliosis knows the Chinese are trying to build themselves some super soldiers. Immune from the deadly they create. Not sure if it’s working but the do have a very large amount of volunteers. I doubt you’ll read that in Politico so I’m sure some here can’t fathom the truth.

Anonymous said...

@9:40, 7:01, & 7:10....Agree on all points.

Also, hydroxychloroquine does indeed work. It must be given soon after infection is identified or as a prophylactic, but it DOES Work! The mainstream media rejected it because Trump said that it did work. And the only medical studies that says that it doesn't work used it far too late after the virus had ravaged a body. If you treat it like birth control, it has a very high rate of efficacy.


Anonymous said...

@7:10 - where are you hearing this “truth” about Chinese super soldiers? Care to provide you source? Is it the same doctor the GOP trotted out last time who believed the virus came from alien dna and sex with demons?

Anonymous said...

8:16.....nailed it! Truth

Anonymous said...

I see there are still many progressives unaware that Obamas aging sock puppet has all but destroyed America in less than 6 months. Enjoy 4 and 5 dollar gas. Enjoy feeding your chllin powdered milk and plain bug riddin oat meal. Killer viruses (which are already created) mean doodly squat if you are already dead.Bottom line ? We ain't climbing out of this hole without a full on nature assisted de-population. God help us......well some of us.

Anonymous said...

DL What if UFO's are either alien or a military technology unknown to most governments?

NO responsible scientists ever, ever said it couldn't have come from a lab...Wuhan's or any other...only that was not " the most likely source".

I heard Fauci and others say just that.

I didn't hear ANYBODY say the Chinese were co-operative or open about much of anything about CV 19.

But, then I don't second hand or unreliable information seriously. I do well know what those with political agendas that are lying directly, from omission or ignorance ( deliberate or wishful thinking) say because those folks who believe what is on the level of " gossip" are a risk to our democratic republic.
History has proven lies of any kind combined with personally blaming and demonizing individuals for all societal problems who are educators, the press, government leaders or government institutions that are designed only to inflame the citizenry and are a threat.

Perhaps you believe in an autocracy and that the end justifies the means, but neither are beliefs are compatible with American or Christian ideals.

Anonymous said...

What if Thanos is actually a Chinese virologist?

Anonymous said...

The real truth that you won’t find in the MSM is that Trump and the CIA created c-19 to try and hurt China and their reputation. It was designed specifically for their population which is why it caused such a disaster in Asian countries. Unfortunately, they didn’t consider the fact that people may travel to other countries and that negligence caused the global outbreak we now have. Follow the money.

Anonymous said...

Here's what we know, orange man bad, Joe Bribem the savior of the world.

Anonymous said...

12:27 failed to reveal this explosive new information and is complicit in the death of thousands

Anonymous said...

Unfortunately, Jonas "Father of Mass Innoculation" Salk's dogmatic diatribe entitled "The Survival Of The Wisest" is out-of-print and last time I checked there was only one copy available on Amazon at around $950.00 but this madman states that you and I are merely mutant animals and the scientific elite have every right to mutate us using viral vector vaccines to mutate and modify our RNA and DNA, the only impediment being those who possess traditional values and such traditionalists should be exterminated....Sounds insane, yet here we are.

Anonymous said...

I remember when the president claimed the virus would just disappear once summer time came around. The right claimed that as soon as the presidential election was over, the virus would then go away. Not sure why they thought that other than they mirrored whatever garbage the idiot in charge claimed, but they sure fell for hook line and sinker.

Anonymous said...

7:17 pm

You ignore the purpose of the news conference. It's called "context".

How would ANY of the Trump speculations be relevant if he wasn't talking about using them in human treatment?

It was pretty damn obvious that he'd brought those things up with those scientists before the news conference and the scientists were,by then, too intimidated to enlighten him or lacked the time to try . Placating him led him to believing that his delusions of genius gave him another " brag" opportunity. IF there were a possibility for any of those, it'd be realized too late to help. So yet again, he said something totally off the wall and his worshippers bought into any "after the fact" excuses available.

And, everyone who has had the responsibility for children knew and knows the dangers of toxic fumes and chemical burns and exposure. to UV lights.

It was just an appallingly stupid thing to speculate that way at all in a national press conference on TV. Children can hear news conferences while their parents listen. Children were at home.

And,9:40 Aside from the lack of Trump leadership in creating a coordinated effort to deal with CV19 when it was still containable, his failure to lead responsibility erased economic gains. He shot himself in the foot.
It was the Jared, naive diplomatic efforts that caused the current situation in Israel.
It was the GOP Senate that came up with everything else you give credit except Presidential directives. There was no input on how to "do" anything from Trump...not even a GOP platform. And, as usual, no tax reform and more giveaways to the richest of the rich.
Everyone hates taxes but 8 years of reducing taxes everywhere by the GOP and blocking sensible reforms so no money existed for infrastructure or cyber security has damaged us badly.

The wall was a fail ( few miles of replacement mainly, wasted money on a wall contract to a loyalist that is falling into the river from a ridiculous proposal as it was always a geographical impossibilty. And the previous immigration surge a draconian disaster. Again, no attention to detail and leaving a mess that yes, Biden exasperated with too soon with his own directive. Immigration is too good of an issue for the parties to get meaningful reform. Thanks to those who won't do anything but demand " my way or the highway" emotional demands.

Governing is hard and complicated. Opining and whining isn't.

Problem identification is easy. Solving problems is hard and complicated. Opining and whining isn't.

Ironically, Trump should have taken credit for the most secure election in history. His move to do that and put a true genius in charge was the right thing to do and it worked. But, again Trump shot himself in the foot.

And no President in history has had so many criminals in his administration. You wont' read Flynn's trial transcript. You want to believe " witch hunt", not see evidence.

You won't read the GOP Intelligence Report.

You lost the election because of Trump himself. That's why you won down ballot races. And,you'll lose again unless gerrymandering was done smartly enough.

If the GOP keeps this nonsense up, you might get control of Congress and you have control of the courts, but you'll have to do a coup to get control of the Presidency ever again. It's possible, but then so is another civil war.











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