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National Review: Let’s attack science and higher education at the same time

National Review reports academic journal editors and researchers are willing to reject the lab-leak theory to explain the coronavirus pandemic because...they want to keep China happy. These concerns are not unwarranted: As VOA notes, the publisher of Nature and Scientific American censors articles considered sensitive by the Party. Ebright told National Review in April that leading figures associated with the Lancet’s COVID commission propagated …

National Review: Big cheers to a comedian for liking the “lab leak” theory

National Review reports that a popular comedian said what had to be said: The "lab leak" theory makes perfect sense. By daring to embrace the truth (by which I mean that the most plausible explanation for the virus’s origin is that it came out of the lab, and making this theory unsayable by stamping it …

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AP: China to send crew to space station

The Associated Press reports China is hours away from sending its first crew to the country's space station. Thursday’s launch begins the first crewed space mission in five years for an increasingly ambitious space program. China has sent 11 astronauts into space since becoming the third country to so so on its own in 2003, …