The report will be ~500 pages long, and shrouded in an impenetrable dialect of bureaucratese. No-one in the world will read it in its entirety. A lot of people will cherry-pick bits that sound like they support their previous conclusion. Some people will declare that it proves the coronavirus was a deliberate Chinese bioweapon released to attack America and we should retaliate by nuking them. Some people will declare that it proves that discussion of the lab leak hypothesis has always been unfounded anti-Asian discriminatory hate speech. No-one will change their mind about anything or do anything different.
In the few cases where the report presents clear statements of fact, it will be pretended that they were already the viewpoint of experts. Any media outlets that made earlier statements incompatible with the report will quietly edit or simply ignore their past statements. Only a handful of people will notice or care about this.
An alternative story:
The report will be ~500 pages long, and shrouded in an impenetrable dialect of bureaucratese. No-one in the world will read it in its entirety. A lot of people will cherry-pick bits that sound like they support their previous conclusion. Some people will declare that it proves the coronavirus was a deliberate Chinese bioweapon released to attack America and we should retaliate by nuking them. Some people will declare that it proves that discussion of the lab leak hypothesis has always been unfounded anti-Asian discriminatory hate speech. No-one will change their mind about anything or do anything different.
In the few cases where the report presents clear statements of fact, it will be pretended that they were already the viewpoint of experts. Any media outlets that made earlier statements incompatible with the report will quietly edit or simply ignore their past statements. Only a handful of people will notice or care about this.