When Being Right Isn’t Enough

One lesson to be learned from the Covid era is that the truth simply doesn’t carry any weight against elite fads.

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Members of the World Health Organization team tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus sit in a car at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China, February 3, 2021.

Thomas Peter/Reuters

Over the weekend, the Department of Energy announced that its own investigation into the matter yielded the conclusion that Covid-19 was most probably released from the virology lab in Wuhan. I’m sure I had the same thought everyone else did: If we blindfold a kid and give him a stick to beat Anthony Fauci with, will the good doctor burst open and reveal nothing on the inside but thousands of doses of hydroxychloroquine?

Oh, just me?

Michael Brendan Dougherty

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Michael Brendan Dougherty is a senior writer at National Review Online.

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