NYT columnist: We were “badly misled” about the pandemic: Have we reached “end-stage capitalism”?
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 20 March 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Trust in media and government has plummeted, driven by a culture that treats truth as a commodity. Zeynep Tufekci’s investigation into the COVID-19 lab leak theory reveals how information is often shaped by financial and political interests rather than objective reality. The same consumer-driven mindset influences our faith—turning Christianity into a transaction rather than a relationship. When we shift our focus from what we can get to who He is, the distractions of this world fade in the light of His glory and grace.
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings and welcome to Denison Forum's Daily Article Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | Today is Thursday, March the 20th, 2025. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's daily article, |
| 0:15.0 | authored by our co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:20.0 | Zaynep Tufaxha is a professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University and a |
| 0:27.0 | New York Times opinion columnist. |
| 0:29.6 | Her latest Times article is headline, We Were Badly Misled about the Event that Changed |
| 0:35.3 | Our Lives. |
| 0:36.4 | In it, she describes in great detail the lengths |
| 0:39.6 | taken to discount the possibility that the COVID-19 pandemic began in a research lab in Wuhan, China. |
| 0:46.4 | For example, a paper in the journal Nature Medicine written by five prominent scientists |
| 0:52.6 | declared that no laboratory-based scenario for the pandemic |
| 0:56.8 | virus was plausible. However, Tufexia writes, while the scientists publicly said that the scenario |
| 1:03.0 | was implausible, privately, many of its authors considered the scenario to not be just plausible, |
| 1:10.0 | but likely. She adds, to this day, there is no strong scientific evidence ruling out a lab leak |
| 1:16.6 | or proving that the virus arose from human-animal contact in that seafood market. |
| 1:21.6 | The few papers cited for market origin were written by a small, overlapping group of authors, including those who |
| 1:29.8 | didn't tell the public how serious their doubts had been. In quote, if you're thinking that this |
| 1:36.0 | issue is relegated to the past, think again. Tufexia refers us to a recent paper in the publication |
| 1:43.4 | cell, a prestigious scientific journal, |
| 1:46.9 | reporting that researchers have taken samples of viruses found in bats and experimented |
| 1:52.5 | to see if they could infect human cells and pose a pandemic risk. |
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