That a biological laboratory can leak viruses is undisputed. So why the frantic resistance to any discussion that Covid-19 may have originated in a Chinese research lab (that was partially U.S.-funded)? In Unherd, Ian Birrell looks at how scientists, social media and governments suppressed a crucial debate by crying “conspiracy theory.”

Racial Quotas by Algorithm
Allum Bokhari, writing in The American Conservative, illuminates a Colorado state bill claiming to create “a shield against ‘algorithmic discrimination’” that would force AI companies to generate outputs based on government-imposed racial, and other identity-based, quotas. As with past variants of reverse discrimination, asserts Bokhari, Colorado’s AI bill amounts to thinly disguised leftist ideology aimed at institutionalizing the very harm it claims to ameliorate.


