I thought this was a great summary of the "debate":<p><a href="https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/practically-a-book-review-rootclaim" rel="nofollow">https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/practically-a-book-review-r...</a>
I'm curious to know to what extent these sorts of data-rich stories are templatized. My guess is that they're to the point where the components used in this piece were pulled from an existing widget library. Otherwise, that'd be a lot of effort for ... such an opinion piece.<p>Also, the native reading experience on Android is surprisingly bad. The content was scrolling out from under me unexpectedly and other times -- reminiscent of the old FOUC on the web. I also felt "stuck" while trying to navigate through some of the dataviz components.
Jeffrey Sachs is quite entertaining on similar points <a href="https://youtu.be/JS-3QssVPeg?t=6500" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/JS-3QssVPeg?t=6500</a><p>He was Chairman of the Lancet Covid-19 Commission, and originally a believer that it didn't come from a lab, now flipped. Sorry the interview is with Tucker. Quite a lot more on the politics of the thing and why it would have happened than the nyt article.