Great read. Dispute isn't 'pro' or 'anti' in many ways. It's about what counts as science, for whom, etc.
Also relevant to thinking about Bhattacharya at NIH or indiv researchers talking about COVID origins. Lots of actors failing to recognize they are in a larger political dispute.
@paulecohen.bsky.socialthe comparisons with Galileo that everyone is rushing to make are really interesting -- but not for the reasons that most people think
the Galileo affair was not an instance of a heroic scientist falling victim to a an all-powerful Catholic Church monolithically committed to obscurity and dogma,