this is the kind of thing that could obliterate the faith of millions. The last global disaster, the financial crisis of 2008, smashed people’s trust in the institutions of capitalism, in the myths of free trade and the New Economy, and eventually in the elites who ran both American political parties.
If the Wuhan lab-leak hypothesis is true, expect a political earthquake | Thomas Frank
The potential consequences of the origins of the virus are shattering – if they can be proved
liberalism made a sort of cult out of science, expertise, the university system, executive-branch “norms,” the “intelligence community,” the State Department, NGOs, the legacy news media, and the hierarchy of credentialed achievement in general …
“Let us pray, now, for science,” intoned a New York Times columnist back at the beginning of the Covid pandemic.