I know we're not supposed to ask why people are downvoted but I'd be fascinated to know why you were downvoted. I like Matt Yglesias, I think his Very Serious

I know we're not supposed to ask why people are downvoted but I'd be fascinated to know why you were downvoted. I like Matt Yglesias, I think his Very Serious work is usually at least interesting, and I find some of his trollish witticisms very appealing. But I think you've hit the nail on the head; he creates a sort of Poe's Law situation around his own work because of them. In this case I think he's overreaching a little. But then I also think the lab leak theory was discredited and avoided partly from well-meaning applications of the wrong reasons, because even if you make a serious review of it as a professional accident, the Wrong People will definitely like and share your work for their own awful/vile/violent reasons. And nobody wants to be part of that.