Will the RW pause its transgender freakout and book banning? The Department of Energy has a special announcement. Well, it’s not that special, really. It’s another “low confidence” finding not unlike the Cochrane mask study that Bret Stephens hyped last week in the New York Times. In a classified report, the DOE finds based on new intelligence that there is a low probability that COVID-19 originated from an accidental lab leak in China. Then come the caveats (New York Times): Some officials briefed on the intelligence said that it was relatively weak and that the Energy Department’s conclusion was made with “low confidence,” suggesting its level of certainty was not high. While the department shared the information with other agencies, none of them changed their conclusions, officials said. Biden national security adviser Jake Sullivan would not confirm the intelligence, telling CNN on Sunday “there is no definitive answer” the the origin of the pandemic. The 18 services in the intelligence community have differing assessments. In addition to the Energy Department, the F.B.I. has also concluded, with moderate confidence, that the virus first emerged accidentally from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a Chinese lab that worked on coronaviruses. Four other intelligence agencies and the National Intelligence Council have concluded, with low confidence, that the virus most likely emerged through natural transmission, the director of national intelligence’s office announced in October 2021. “Natural” would be the Wuhan animal market theory. Also naturally, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and colleagues jumped right on hyping the…