MSNBC host goes on Twitter rant over the lab leak theory being suppressed: 'Blame the conspiracy theorists'

MSNBC’s Mehdi Hassan insisted that "the right" was to blasted for efforts to squash chat connected the laboratory leak theory successful a rant from his Twitter relationship connected Sunday and Monday.

The "Mehdi Hassan Show" big primitively retweeted a remark from FiveThirtyEight laminitis Nate Silver who blasted scientists and nationalist officials who sought to suppress dissenting opinions connected nan origins of nan coronavirus.

"Welp. The behaviour of a definite cadre of scientists who utilized each instrumentality successful nan book to suppress chat of this rumor is thing I'll ne'er forget. A immense disservice to subject and nationalist health. They should beryllium profoundly embarrassed," Silver tweeted Sunday.

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Scientists person admitted being dismissed aliases ignored complete suggesting nan laboratory leak mentation arsenic a imaginable root for nan coronavirus. (iStock)

Hasan responded, "The elemental logic why truthful galore group weren’t keen to talk nan ‘lab leak’ *theory* is because it was primitively conflated by nan correct pinch ‘Chinese bio weapon’ conspiracies and continues to beryllium conflated by nan correct pinch anti-Fauci conspiracies. Blame nan conspiracy theorists."

The U.S. Energy Department reportedly recovered that nan COVID-19 pandemic apt originated from an accidental laboratory leak successful China successful opposition to first claims from scientists that it had developed people from a Wuhan bedewed market. Dissenting scientists person since revealed that though nan laboratory leak mentation was ever considered a possibility, galore were shunned and moreover silenced from attempting to investigation nan possibility.

Many successful nan media claimed early connected that nan laboratory leak mentation had been debunked and was racist misinformation. 

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According to Hasan, however, this was owed to "bad faith" agitators. 

"It’s difficult to person a bully religion disagreement astir a awesome rumor if nan rumor itself has been hijacked by bad religion folks," Hasan tweeted.

He added, "Incidentally, immoderate of america did effort and big bully religion debates connected nan ‘lab leak’ theory, moreover backmost successful 2021," on pinch a tweet promoting a chat pinch Dr. Angela Rasmussen and Dr. Alina Chan connected his show successful June 2021.

Mainstream media outlets mostly dismissed nan laboratory leak mentation arsenic a "conspiracy theory." (iStock)

Hasan continued nan thread connected Monday, reiterating his onslaught connected "the right" and "lay people" who were "obsessed" with nan laboratory leak theory during nan onset of nan pandemic.

"Also: inquire yourself why truthful galore group connected nan right, laic people, were obsessed pinch this 1 circumstantial facet of nan subject of Covid, which by nan position is still not nan mostly position amongst scientists? Was it because of their technological curiosity? Lol," Hasan wrote.

Hasan continued to reply to disapproval of his tweets and repeated his proposal that nan mentation was not suppressed.

"Loads of rightwing and centrist non-scientist dudes connected this tract person now convinced themselves that nan laboratory leak mentation wasn’t conscionable ‘suppressed’ but is besides ‘the astir apt actual mentation of nan origin’ of Covid - erstwhile astir scientists don’t deliberation that’s nan lawsuit astatine all!" Hasan responded to 1 user.

To another, he commented, "It was dismissed - and continues to beryllium dismissed - because location was nary difficult grounds for it, and location still isn’t!, and because it has ever been portion of broader rightwing conspiracies - including nan online hysteria and faux outrage correct now!"

He concluded successful a abstracted Twitter thread that nan existent ungraded was not immoderate efforts to suppress nan laboratory leak mentation but efforts to undermine masks and vaccinations.

Scientists and media figures person begun accepting nan mentation that nan coronavirus was an accidental leak from a laboratory successful China. (iStock)

"Millions dormant from Covid, galore of which could person been prevented by masks and/or vaccines. Same folks who refused to endorse either, and don’t want to talk astir nan ongoing decease toll, are now whining astir whether nan coronavirus leaked from a laboratory aliases came from a bedewed market," Hasan tweeted.

He added, "Sure it could person travel from a lab, moreover though astir scientists/studies opportunity otherwise. But hey, fine. It came from a lab. Now what? How does that thief boost our abysmally debased vaccination and booster rates? How does that thief america clasp Trump to relationship for dropping nan shot successful 2020?"

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In nan past 2 weeks, a caller technological reappraisal recovered masks made ‘little to nary difference’ successful preventing dispersed of COVID, while different study said anterior COVID infection provides just arsenic overmuch protection arsenic vaccines.