 All right, let's start with the lab leak story. This is a story that the Wall Street Journal two days ago, or three days ago now. It's hard for me to keep track while I travel. But the Wall Street Journal broke a story that says the Department of Energy in the United States government, I guess the Department of Energy has its own intelligence agencies. It's a little spooky how many different intelligence agencies there are in the United States and how little I think they still talk to each other. That was supposedly one of the lessons learned from 9-11, but I don't think it was actually learnt. Anyway, the story is that the Department of Energy in the United States has come to the conclusion that it is likely, although not certain, but likely that COVID was a result of a lab leak, not a purposeful lab leak, an accidental lab leak at the Wuhan research facility. Now, of course, this shouldn't be a surprise to anybody if I talked about this on the show many times during COVID, and then I actually had Matt Ridley on the show to discuss the lab leak theory when he published a book about it. I had read the book and the book, I thought, made a very credible case for the lab leak as being more likely than the virus coming about naturally and spreading through the market. I thought that Ridley and Julie Chen, I think her name is, Julie or any way, Chen, a post graduate Chen who he worked with made a compelling case that it was lab leak. I think some of the intelligence agencies in the United States are coming to the same conclusion. Of course, China continues to deny it. So intelligence agencies in the United States are still claiming it was natural. I suspect that there are people in the US who know, there are people in the US who are helping fund some of this research. I mean, the research in and of itself is probably not research that we should say, you know, fundamentally should be banned, but the research was being done in laboratories that were not at the highest security category, certainly not at the security category that would be justified for a virus that could affect human beings the way COVID did. So it's probably that one of the, during the research, one of the researchers got COVID, went to the market and the rest of history, probably in October and November of 2019. So part of this story though is kind of a story that repeated itself during COVID and is generally a story and that is that some people in the administration and then some people in the mainstream media decided that the lab leak story was some kind of conspiracy theory. I never thought it was. I thought the idea that Russia did it, that China did it on purpose was a conspiracy theory and didn't make any sense. But some people thought that the lab leak theory was a conspiracy theory. And therefore, a lot of publications, a lot of scientific publications, and Selina Mates Media, pooped it, ridiculed it, shut it down, prohibited people from talking about it and really did a lot of damage to the cause of journalism and the cause of a free press. So there was a real attempt to shut the story down and to silence the story. In spite of that, and this is the good news, in spite of that, there were people talking about it, researching it, describing it, and then there was a breakthrough story in, I think, the New Yorker of all places, the New Yorker that basically laid down the whole lab leak theory and kind of gave it credibility. And at some point kind of the damn burst and many more people came on board on this. And of course, Matt Ridley's book was a defining moment. So I think that the lab leak theory really was never a conspiracy theory. It was being suggested by incredibly thoughtful scientists and journalists. It didn't look like the kind of a theory that you could dismiss offhand, even very early on. It was nobody knew, and the fact is nobody still knows exactly what caused or what started COVID. But I don't know who exactly in the energy department. I don't know why the energy department is investigating this. I'm not even sure why an energy department even exists, why we need an energy department. But somebody at the energy department who is supposedly is qualified to do these things has this report, again this is secret reports, the Washington Journal got access to it, and they are conflicting views within the Biden administration with regard to whether lab leak is legit or not. But again, as I said, Matt Ridley's book seemed pretty persuasive. I think since the Ridley's book was published, there's been a lot more evidence to suggest that the lab leak is likely, although there was some people who counted it with some things that suggested it could be natural after all. So I don't know that we'll ever know for sure, but a little bit more evidence. And again, part of the issue is here how our media and how the authorities dealt with these things and what happens when you silence and when you don't allow these things and we know this from Twitter and we know this from elsewhere, you don't allow honest debate and discussion. And particularly on issues that nobody is really sure. I don't think anybody can say with, what do you call it, with certainty what exactly happened. All right, let's see. So that is the lab through a story. ChatGPT, I mean there's a bunch of stories related to ChatGPT. Let me see if I can, oh, let me just one second. Oh, so you asked who, somebody in chat asked who the Department of Energy was. So it turns out that the Department of Energy manages labs around the country and the world and reportedly has new evidence about this. So they have some expertise in this. And, you know, some people are arguing that this is just another attempt by the Biden administration and by elements within the Biden administration to drive tensions with China even higher, even worse and to drive us, you know, so who knows. But suddenly this came out. And I'm trying to look just quickly when the New York Magazine, the New York Magazine articles in early 2021. So this is relatively early on. They had a 12,000 word piece on a lab leak in October 2021, October 2021. That was early 2021. The FBI came out and said, you know, there's some suspicion that it is a lab leak. And by December 2021, according to polls, 70% of Americans believe that COVID came from labs. So anyway, that is where we are. And just making a appropriate contribution on any one of those, any one of those channels. 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