But if you want to argue FINE.
I don't think this is about shunning people like me because no one cares about people like me. It is about shunning scientists and famous people.
How about mainstream US media literally never touched for years the topic that a massive pandemic that caused billions in damage possibly came from an US funded lab in China? Either all scientists were dumb and thought it was impossible, or they all as one agreed to never talk about it, OR some scientists thought it's likely and wanted to talk about it but could not publicly. Almost as if people talking about unwelcome theory were idk how could we call it... shunned?
All US gov needed to say is yes this maybe happened but we are not sure. Instead they doubled down and even published known wrong papers. This discredited science for many years.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/nih-emails-origin-...
> Unredacted records obtained by The Nation and The Intercept offer detailed insights into those confidential deliberations. The documents show that in the early days of the pandemic, Fauci and Collins took part in a series of e-mail exchanges and telephone calls in which several leading virologists expressed concern that SARS-CoV-2 looked potentially “engineered.” The participants also contemplated the possibility that laboratory activities had inadvertently led to the creation and release of the virus. The conversations convey a sense of anxious urgency and included speculation about the specific types of laboratory techniques that might have caused the virus’s emergence. After roughly a week of debate and data collection, one of the key figures involved in the deliberations characterized the focus of the group’s work as follows: “to disprove any type of lab theory.” Several of the scientists on the calls and e-mails then went on to write and publish “Proximal Origin.” It became one of the best-read papers in the history of science.
