Republicans are increasingly endorsing a conspiracy theory

according to the left-wing rag slate.com.

And it is apparently all my fault.

I, your humble host, am now officially a conspiracy theorist according to slate.com.

Get me a tinfoil hat, bring me my gay frogs, I have apparently led Republicans

astray by persuading them to sign onto my public health protection pledge,

which slate alleges makes a boogie man out of Dr. Anthony Fauci and links him,

quote, to an ominous history with COVID-19.

That is the headline.

Today, right slate, more than a dozen congressional candidates have signed this pledge,

which was authored by the Daily Wires Michael Knowles. This is true.

A lot of the people who are sitting members of Congress have endorsed my pledge too, by the way.

So it's not just the candidates, it's actually members of Congress.

Congressman Paul Gosar introduced it as an official house resolution just this month.

So that part's totally right. What's the conspiracy theory that I'm peddling?

You might ask, what is the accusation that I have made? Well, slate continues. They say,

to be clear, the pledge itself makes no specific accusations of wrongdoing.

Huh, it's kind of weird. Slate accused us of peddling a conspiracy theory,

but then immediately admitted that we did no such thing. We didn't pedal any theory at all.

Slate then focuses the rest of the article on what it calls the gain of function conspiracy theory.

That is, it describes quote, an idea that incorrectly connects US funding that was used by the

Wuhan Institute of Virology to study bat coronavirus as to a theory also incorrect

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