An Explanation Isn't Always An Excuse

I was fascinated by a tweet from Mehdi Hasan this week. (That’s a hell of a depressing sentence. I should have been fascinating by a book from Tolstoy. But here I was being fascinated by a tweet from Mehdi Hasan.) The MSNBC host said:

The simple reason why so many people weren’t keen to discuss the ‘lab leak’ *theory* is because it was originally conflat…