It is hard to believe people SO fundamentally unserious are going to kill millions of us over the next decade and has set back disease research by at least a generation that we will never get back.

I think people's interest in this DC-journo train wreck is understandable (and so is the desire to unsee it); I hope folks understand that it's not a soap opera and, in fact, the reason it's so grotesque is that the people involved are treating it like one.

Sitting on this for a year and a half, and then pacing it out this way to try to maximize newsletter subscriptions.

It's gross to sit on it, but I can imagine a "we were quarreling over NDAs" self-defense. But then he's gotta shout the whole thing with his full chest to make up for it now.