2/ But when Chan & Ridley have to confront the fact that the first known cluster of Covid-19 cases centered around a live animal market nowhere near the Wuhan Institute of Virology, they switch to "Well, this *other* lab is pretty close to that market... just sayin'"

1/ Chan and Ridley, or at least Chan, aren't conspiracy theorists but they do some sleazy non-scientific things in their book. For example, they spend a lot of time talking about the coronavirus work done at the Wuhan Institute of Virology..

The total blackout of the story came after Trump told his allies to stop talking about the "Epstein Files," which he claimed were "created" by the deep state, contradicting their past narrative.
www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tru...

It's true, large portions of DC were straight wetlands before it was a city.

Also, Waterworld gets unfairly bashed a lot. There, I said it.