US COVID-origins hearing puts scientific journals in the hot seat

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5. Rand Paul says a lot of stupid stuff. Intelligent people have learned not to listen.

Fauci was giving the best information available at the time it became available. This was a brand new virus, nobody knew what it was, how contagious it could be, the major methods of transmission, and most importantly, how to treat it. His message changed as the data cane ub,

Conservatives hated that, they want answers and they want them now and they'd better be the right answers. It's why they make poor scientists. They are terrified of uncertainty and that's what this is about.