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guesst

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    Comment #27080723

    You shouldn't have used the word "covertly". That completely distorted your point and made it false. I watched the Joe Rogan Josh Rogin clip you linked to. It's very interesting. B…

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    Comment #27080226

    I agree that compromised isn't a smart word to use about this, but even if you think all these questions have been settled, I'm surprised you don't agree that it is bad optics to h…

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    Comment #27073509

    https://www.independentsciencenews.org/commentaries/an-inter... is also an interesting and relevant interview.

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    Comment #27073317

    Right, but the Western sponsors of the work would have been aware of this. This whole thing was a major dispute among virologists, major enough to end up in a NYT editorial. That m…

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    Comment #27072974

    It's a possible explanation, but that doesn't mean it's "very likely". In that case it would be easy enough to drive back down to the cave and collect the missing evidence of bat o…

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    Comment #27072952

    If the evidence is that overwhelming, then why are so few researchers saying so? I can understand things being extremely skewed at the political and policy level - that's expected …

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    Comment #27072753

    You're treating that question as settled. To me that is the mirror image of the media outlets trying to shut down an open question by claiming it's a "conspiracy" that has been "de…

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    Comment #27072635

    That's a bit confusing because the OP makes an opposite point: "The intermediary host species of SARS1 was identified within four months of the epidemic’s outbreak, and the host of…

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    Comment #27072540

    I really think it's just the other way around. The more people make this about China, the less likely we are to find out the truth. If it's used as a geopolitical chess piece, it w…

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    Comment #27072393

    The China aspect is probably a red herring. Gain-of-function research was internationally funded, including by the US. The perils had been pointed out for years by virologists [1],…