When Being Right Isn’t Enough

One lesson to be learned from the Covid era is that the truth simply doesn’t carry any weight against elite fads.

Over the weekend, the Department of Energy announced that its own investigation into the matter yielded the conclusion that Covid-19 was most probably released from the virology lab in Wuhan. I’m sure I had the same thought everyone else did: If we blindfold a kid and give him a stick to beat Anthony Fauci with, will the good doctor burst open and reveal nothing on the inside but thousands of doses of hydroxychloroquine?

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