183 | Matt Ridley: Lessons from Investigating the Origins of COVID-19
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🗓️ 9 December 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Zaga and Marshall here, welcome back to the Realignment. |
| 0:03.1 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:08.4 | Alina Chanani have been able to put together a book that without solving the problem |
| 0:13.9 | takes the reader through all the evidence that can be assembled |
| 0:18.0 | and a lot of that evidence comes from unpaid people doing things in their spare time. |
| 0:25.8 | And for me, that's been one of the fascinating parts of this project. |
| 0:29.8 | That finding out where SARS-CoV-2 came from is a really important issue. |
| 0:37.2 | We need to know, to prevent the next pandemic, and nothing else. |
| 0:42.4 | And yet, we have not been able to rely on government actors, |
| 0:49.3 | Western governments, Chinese governments, |
| 0:52.6 | to give us sufficient information to solve that problem. |
| 0:55.8 | Nor have we been able to rely on mainstream media on the whole with some very honorable exceptions. |
| 1:02.7 | They've shown surprising new little curiosity about this topic, frankly. |
| 1:07.9 | Nor has the scientific establishment been much helped again with some honorable exceptions. |
| 1:13.6 | Quite a lot of them take the view that we'd rather not find out. |
| 1:16.5 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 1:22.4 | Hello, everybody. I have some sad news I wasn't able to make the taping for this recording. |
| 1:26.7 | Just so you guys know, it's been a very busy month for me, |
| 1:30.0 | personally, I've had some personal stuff in my life happening. |
| 1:33.0 | I have to move again. |
| 1:34.4 | Tax season is also upon me as a new business owner. |
| 1:38.5 | So Marshall, I'm very sorry. |
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