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Lab leak most likely origin of Covid-19 pandemic, U.S. agency now says
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#102I wonder how the classified intelligence report responds to the fact that the early cases clustered around the Huanan Market not the Wahun Institute of Virology...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm4454
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/03/03/1083751...
Re: Lab leak most likely origin of Covid-19 pandemic, U.S. agency now says
#103Nothing seems certain at this point, but, let’s say the pandemic was actually caused by a lab leak. That’ll mean the world was brought to an economic standstill and millions of people died because of the errors and carelessness of some people…will there be consequences? What will be the assurance that such deadly mistake won’t occur again? If it was actually a lab leak, then it’ll definitely rank as the most costly a…
Based on what you suggest, there is every incentive for things to remain uncertain permanently. Any smoking gun will be hidden away and discredited.
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#104As a non-American, the whole thing seems crazy to me. It seems like Trump said it from the start, and the media negated him based on political views, not facts. And now, only years later, there is a reconciliation with the facts. Now, I'm not that aware of the politics or the media in the US. But I think the way I see it may be the way many others saw this story roll. Whether or not it's true - it is a big reason tha…
Trump presented it as an intentional biological attack from China. This is why everyone was running as fast as possible from "lab leak". Nobody wanted to add WW3 to our problems with an unknown pandemic looming at the horizon.
Re: Lab leak most likely origin of Covid-19 pandemic, U.S. agency now says
#105Huh. I thought that theory was debunked a long time ago.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/washington-post-corrects...
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#106How can they tell the difference between a lab leak and a deliberate release to explore the world's reaction to a viral weapon?
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#107Why is the Department of Energy making this announcement? What does the CDC think?
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#109> Four other agencies, along with a national intelligence panel, still judge that it was likely the result of a natural transmission, and two are undecided.
So each US government agency independently publishes their own conclusions...?
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’d have to re-listen to numerous TWiV podcasts, but here is a WaPo article discussing the quality of research at WIV: https://archive.ph/2020.01.31-185716/https://www.washingtonp... The Wuhan institute was celebrated as an improvement over the facilities at which dangerous viruses had previously been studied in China. The 2004 SARS outbreak originated in a lab: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC416634/
That WaPo article isn't about the quality of research at the WIV, it's an attempted (failed) debunking of the "fringe theory" that SARS-CoV-2 escaped from a lab. It has nothing to say on what good science they produced, perhaps because there wasn't any. Virology appears to spend its time fiddling with viruses based on the claim that doing so will help create vaccines, except, their work doesn't seem to have contribut…
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