Links for Livestream, 3 pm ET: The Origins of COVID, Wrapping Up Fauci, and More ⁠1%

By Matt Taibbi⁠0%

8/7/2026, 7:39:25 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 0 faulty reasoning types, including no named faulty reasoning patterns yet, with no single egregious example has been isolated yet. Analysis detected 0 faulty-reasoning hits from 97 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 0% and a BS Rank of ⁠1% (30,533 of 30,584 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 99.80% of the article peer group.

Matt Bivens and I will be doing a livestream today at 3:00 PM ET on a variety of issues related to Covid origins, the recent hearings with Dr. 
Anthony Fauci, recently released documents about the Wuhan Institute, and other recent developments in the world of medicine, including AI-generated viruses. 
Please check this space in about an hour for an article about the Wuhan documents, and join us for the stream at 3:00 PM ET at: 
As well as @mtaibbi. 
See you then. 
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