New York Times columnist admits scientists ‘mislead’ the public in Covid-19: ‘Five years too late’

The New York Times finally led a column from a scientist who said the public was “badly deceived” about Covid-19-causing reactions from readers who say acceptance comes five years too late.

In a part of Sunday’s published opinion, Zeynep Tuflecki, a professor of sociology at Princeton University, argued that officials and scientists hid facts, deceived a Times journalist and tried in campaigns to bury the possibility of a Research Laboratory in Wuhan, China.

It has turned out that preliminary security measures in the Wuhan lab in question “could have been terribly weak,” Tuflecki wrote in her column, entitled “We were deceived badly for the event that changed our lives.”

Social media users were quick to accuse the gray hippocrisy lady, circulating photos of a post now deleted by 2021 by journalist Times Ordorva Mandavilli claiming that “the theory of lab flow” had “racist roots”.

“Five years too late,” one user wrote about Tuflecki’s article in a post that earned 10,000 likes.

“Remember when NYT would call you a spread of misinformation, and social media platforms would stop you from trusting Covid-19 originally in a lab?”

Another user wrote: “Anydo so -called Covid’s calculation of times that fails to face his ruthless lies is not a calculation at all.”

Meanwhile, some loyal left-wing subscribers slammed the waistband to return to its earlier Covid-19 articles.

The New York Times did not immediately respond to the post request for comment.

For years, the CIA claimed that there was insufficient evidence to determine whether the pandemia that closed the country stemmed from a wet market in Wuhan or a research lab there.

But the agency recently updated its assessment to favor the theory of lab flow, though with “low faith”, which means there is incomplete evidence.

The Energy Department, which runs sophisticated laboratories, and the FBI was moved to support the theory in 2023.

Tuflecki acknowledged that “perhaps we were deliberately cheated” for the origin of the virus.

It aimed at a 2020 research paper in the journal Nature Medicine written by five prominent journalists – Christian Andrew Rambaut, W. Ian Lipkin, Edward Holmes and Robert Garry.

The newspaper boldly stated that there was no credibility for the theory of the lab flow – but many of its authors, in clumsy messages behind the scenes, shared concerns that Wuhan’s flow was not only possible, but likely.

“The lab version of this is so friggin ‘is likely to have happened because they were already doing this type of work and the molecular data are fully compatible with that scenario,” Andersen wrote in a message at the time.

The authors contacted Jeremy Farrar, now the leading scientist in the World Health Organization for advice.

In his book, Farrar said he used a Burner phone to set meetings for scientists concerned to talk to Francis Collins, then the director of the National Institute of Health, and Dr. Anthony Fauci.

After reviewing a draft of the paper, Farrar pushed scientists to rule out the possibility of an even more direct lab leak, which they did, Tuflecki wrote.

The main authors of the newspaper also tried to deceive Donald G. McNeil Jr., who was reporting to Covid-19 for Times, to throw it out of the aroma of a possible lab flow, according to the writings of the conversations.

Tuflecki also blamed an influential letter published in the Magazine The Lancet in early 2020 which seemed to have been written by a group of independent scientists.

But the newspaper was actually designed by Peter Daszak, president of ECOHEALTH, a non-profit researching Bat Coronaviruses in China and failing to sound the alarm when Covid-19 began to spread, according to Tuflecki.

David Morans, one of Fauci’s old advisers at the time, wrote to Daszak that he had learned how to email about the origin of the Pandemia “disappeared”.

“We are all smart enough to know that we would never have smoking, and if we did it we would not put them in the email and if we found them we would delete them,” he wrote.