{"id":193622,"date":"2025-04-01T09:19:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T09:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/?p=193622"},"modified":"2025-03-31T19:26:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T19:26:17","slug":"ny-times-columnist-claims-scientists-misled-public-on-covid-origins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/ny-times-columnist-claims-scientists-misled-public-on-covid-origins\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Times Columnist Claims Scientists Misled Public on Covid Origins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When anyone dared question the official covid narrative, were labelled a conspiracy theorist, a spreader of misinformation and a threat to public health.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-193623\" src=\"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-109-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-109-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-109-1024x615.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-109-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-109-1536x923.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-109.jpg 1764w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Health experts, the media and government agencies consigned concerns about vaccine safety, natural immunity and the lab-leak theory to the ranks of \u201cfringe\u201d or outright dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>But now, in 2025, some of the same left-wing media that mocked those assertions are finally admitting the truth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Covid Lab-Leak \u2018Conspiracy\u2019\u2014Now Confirmed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To suggest at the beginning of the global spread of covid-19 that the virus had potentially arisen from a lab in Wuhan was to be ridiculed, censored, and deplatformed. The \u201c<em>scientific consensus<\/em>,\u201d we were told, was that covid was a virus originating from animals and transferred across to humans at a wet market in Wuhan.<\/p>\n<p>Fast-forward to nowadays, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/16\/opinion\/covid-pandemic-lab-leak.html?ref=slightlyoffensive.com\"><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a> is running an op-ed by a former top editor acknowledging what many have known all along \u2014 there was a willful effort to depress discussion of a potential lab leak. The trove of emails and communications between top scientists, Dr. Anthony Fauci and government officials reveals a concerted effort to suppress debate and promote the \u201c<em>natural origins<\/em>\u201d theory despite private worries that the virus might have leaked from a laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>New York Times<\/em> op-ed states:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>We have since learned that to promote the appearance of consensus, some officials and scientists hid or understated crucial facts, misled at least one reporter, orchestrated campaigns of supposedly independent voices and even compared notes about how to hide their communications in order to keep the public from hearing the whole story<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the \u201cconspiracy theorists\u201d were censored not because they were wrong, but because they were dangerously close to the truth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Natural Immunity Was Always Better<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mainstream media and public health officials spent most of 2020 and 2021 denying that natural immunity worked against covid-19. They claimed vaccines were the only way to achieve immunity.<\/p>\n<p>Now? Even Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a <em>CNN<\/em> medical analyst and former hardliner on covid restrictions, has acknowledged that natural immunity works at least as well, if not better, than vaccination. Research published in <em>The Lancet<\/em> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMoa2118946?ref=slightlyoffensive.com\"><em>The New England Journal of Medicine<\/em><\/a> has confirmed that people who had recovered from covid had durable immunity \u2014 something that had been accepted for decades as fact with other viruses but was suddenly called \u201c<em>misinformation<\/em>\u201d during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>So why were people banned from virtual communication networks for saying it? Why were doctors punished for speaking about natural immunity? The answer is clear: money and control.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Truth About Vaccine Injuries Emerges<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For years, side effect victims of the covid vaccine were dismissed, mocked and labeled \u201c<em>anti-vaxxers<\/em>\u201d or \u201c<em>hypochondriacs<\/em>.\u201d Doctors brushed aside their symptoms, and public health officials reassured the public that these vaccines were \u201c<em>safe and effective<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But at least Yale scientists are now willing to concede that post-vaccination syndrome is a real phenomenon. They also reported clear immunological patterns associated with the chronic symptoms, including fatigue, brain fog and neurological problems, in people in these studies after they were vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/02\/25\/opinion\/why-did-a-crew-of-anti-science-extremists-publish-research-questioning-covid-vaccine-safety\/?ref=slightlyoffensive.com\"><em>New York Post<\/em><\/a> recently covered this, noting that:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Scientists find clues on why the covid vaccine causes chronic health problems in some<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A global study of 99 million vaccinated people also found serious side effects, including neurological disorders and heart inflammation. These risks\u2014previously downplayed or outright denied\u2014are now being quietly acknowledged in the same outlets that spent years demonizing anyone who raised concerns.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why This Matters<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If the past five years have proven anything, it\u2019s that those labeled as \u2018conspiracy theorists\u2019 were often just ahead of the curve.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The lab-leak theory? True.<\/li>\n<li>Natural immunity? Legit.<\/li>\n<li>Vaccine risks? Real.<\/li>\n<li>Government and media suppression of dissent? Undeniable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The question now isn\u2019t whether these admissions will continue\u2014the real question is: What else did they lie about? And will they ever be held accountable?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>yogaesoteric<br \/>\nApril 1, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When anyone dared question the official covid narrative, were labelled a conspiracy theorist, a spreader of misinformation and a threat to public health. Health experts, the media and government agencies consigned concerns about vaccine safety, natural immunity and the lab-leak theory to the ranks of \u201cfringe\u201d or outright dangerous. 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