Historical reasons for resistance to recognizing airborne transmission in COVID

Title should be "What were the historical reasons for the resistance to recognizing airborne transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic?", but that was over the character limit.

Accompanying Twitter thread from primary author: https://twitter.com/jljcolorado/status/1562112453948755974

Previous reporting on this in mid-2021: https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwu...