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Because ID defenders can’t contain themselves from dragging up Covid, as in @Marty here, @Eddie here and yourself here. You three were in fact the first to bring up the subject on this thread.
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Because nature abhors a vacuum, and given that there is no evidence being presented on the “integrity of the Discovery Institute” (and if such evidence existed, you wouldn’t be reduced to hand-waving ineffectually about mere bare possibilities), so the bandwidth not spent discussing that non-existent evidence in instead being devoted to discussing what ID defenders are in fact bringing up – i.e. Covid.
Addendum: I’ve corrected this thread’s title to account for these two factors. 