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China clamping down on coronavirus research, deleted pages suggest

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Re: China clamping down on coronavirus research, deleted pages suggest

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Huge change of tone from 2 months ago, ok m guessing it's because because they fear that the lab accident theory will gain more traction academically or they fear people will reveal the scale of the damage to the public vs the clearly fabricated stats we have now.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/30/asia-pacific/sc...

www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/all-signs-point-to-china/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8188557/amp/Did-cor...

https://thebulletin.org/2020/03/experts-know-the-new-coronav...

Re: China clamping down on coronavirus research, deleted pages suggest

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"Despite its name, the geosciences university announced elsewhere on its website that it was carrying out coronavirus research."

incredible journalists repoting on the academy doesn't know what geoscience/geology department studies nowadays. most of them are indistinguishable from sociology thanks to all the urban and policy planing. they also do a great deal od recent history because it's a base for the above.

Re: China clamping down on coronavirus research, deleted pages suggest

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Given the response articles saying it would be possible to engineer the virus have caused, this doesn't seem that extreme. The "origin" of the virus has become a political issue that fringe extremists in many countries are using to attack other countries.

Re: China clamping down on coronavirus research, deleted pages suggest

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Huge change of tone from 2 months ago, ok m guessing it's because because they fear that the lab accident theory will gain more traction academically or they fear people will reveal the scale of the damage to the public vs the clearly fabricated stats we have now. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/30/asia-pacific/sc... www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/all-signs-point-to-china/ https://www.dailymail.co.…

hmm, i was assured 9 days ago that i was obviously wrong:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22771035

Re: China clamping down on coronavirus research, deleted pages suggest

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In lieu of evidence that the “wet market” story is true, the accidental lab release is pretty compelling. Interesting to see how people react to it though - as though the idea is outlandish that a laboratory working with pathogens from actual bats could mishandle things. Is there even any evidence people ate bats at the wet market?

Re: China clamping down on coronavirus research, deleted pages suggest

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Ironically in censorsed domains, the absence of information is a very clear indicator of truth. It happens everywhere - there are many true things you are not allowed to post on the internet.

You know the old saying, "Just because you read it on the internet, doesn't mean it's true"? Consider the inverse: Just because you haven't read it on the internet, doesn't mean it's not true.

Re: China clamping down on coronavirus research, deleted pages suggest

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In lieu of evidence that the “wet market” story is true, the accidental lab release is pretty compelling. Interesting to see how people react to it though - as though the idea is outlandish that a laboratory working with pathogens from actual bats could mishandle things. Is there even any evidence people ate bats at the wet market?

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