China News Service, Beijing, June 10th. Comprehensive news: "Los Angeles Times", "South China Morning Post" and other international media recently published articles on the "laboratory leak" theory of the new crown virus, pointing out that once politics intervenes in scientific investigation issues, the truth disappears ; Call on the United States to examine its own gains and losses in response to the epidemic.

Political manipulation hijacks global public discussions

　　"South China Morning Post" published a review article on June 2 entitled "The Vicious Controversy on the "Chinese Laboratory Leakage" Theory Will Make Us Nothing".

The article clearly pointed out that the emergence of this argument is not to really study the origin of the new coronavirus, but the result of "international confrontation."

This makes it more difficult (or even impossible) for (the scientific community) to find the truth about the origin of the new coronavirus.

　　The article pointed out that in some countries, it is not conducive to scientific research.

"If the politicians and editorialists really want to find out the truth, the above approach is completely wrong."

　　"Once politics intervenes, the truth disappears." The article says that those people don't want the truth, or at least this is not what they want most.

Instead, they just want to get China into trouble.

"From this perspective, the new coronavirus'laboratory leak' theory has little to do with the epidemic, public health, science, and medicine. On the contrary, it belongs to the same category as Xinjiang, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the South China Sea. It is (in certain countries). ) Is part of a global multi-faceted information warfare launched against China."

　　The article analyzes that this practice has contributed to the current wave of harassment and attacks against Asians in the United States and elsewhere.

Scientists who are most qualified to study this subject are also vulnerable to the risk of being "bully", so they also tend to remain silent.

This in turn gives the most partisan groups and individuals the power to set agendas, thereby hijacking global public discussions.

"The most responsible World Health Organization was caught in the middle."

　　The Australian media "Dialogue" published an article on the 7th to discuss the harm of conspiracy theories behind the "laboratory leak" theory of the new crown virus.

The article said that politicians should be wary of publicly advocating the "laboratory leak" theory of the new crown virus.

Because of this, there is a risk of contributing to conspiracy theories.

The problem with conspiracy theories is not only that they cause many people to believe without thinking, but also that they create an environment of public opinion full of uncertainty and easy to lose direction.

This environment has a great negative impact on people's access to information and judgments.

　The U.S. must examine its own gains and losses in response to the epidemic

　　The Los Angeles Times recently published an editorial titled "Aside from the origin of the new crown virus, the United States needs to face its own failure of the epidemic."

　　The editorial said that the "laboratory leak" theory of the new crown virus was previously regarded by the Trump administration as a political tactic to divert people's attention from its inability to deal with the new crown pneumonia epidemic.

The "laboratory leak" theory is still the "guest" of many conspiracy theorists.

　　The editorial stated that the scientific community believes that the new coronavirus is transmitted from animals to humans.

This is a reasonable assumption, because the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus and SARS coronavirus also originated from animals.

Related research from the World Health Organization also believes that the new coronavirus is "extremely unlikely" to leak from the laboratory.

　　US President Biden recently instructed intelligence agencies to investigate the "laboratory leak" theory.

　　The editorial emphasized that we may never be able to determine the true origin of the new coronavirus, but we can be sure that this will not be the last time humanity has faced a deadly virus.

For this reason, the United States needs to spend at least as much energy to investigate: When the new crown pneumonia epidemic hit, where the United States did not handle it properly.

In the future, we may not be able to prevent the emergence of new deadly viruses, but we should respond to these viruses more efficiently.

　　The aforementioned South China Morning Post article also mentioned that ending the new crown pneumonia epidemic and preparing for the next possible global health crisis requires the cooperation of countries around the world.

Now (in some countries) there is distrust of other countries, hostility and antagonism, making this kind of cooperation almost impossible to achieve.

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