More Scientists Urge Broad Inquiry into Coronavirus Origins

Post by mike00632 » Mon, May 31, 2021, 2:49 AM UTC

snet0 wrote: post #286

mike00632 wrote: post #274

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If you want people to take seriesly the idea of COVID-19 coming from a lab then be scientific about it and offer up some ways to make it falsifiable. Otherwise it's simply not scientific, and almost everyone here pushing that theory is ignoring the evidence against it or modifying the conspiracy to fit the facts that contradict it. It's not constructive right now. The hypothesis that COVID-19 came from an animal, nam…

I politely recommend you do more research into the subject. It won't change your conclusions, but the state of affairs is very much not settled. Also, here's your falsifiability: when it can be shown that the virus is zoonotic in origin, the other theories of its origin are falsified. I do not believe that the virus was engineered in a lab at this point, but turning this into tribe warfare will not help anything. Say…

Falsifiability would be something like: we know what the genetics of lab-made viruses look like; they have certain base pair signatures; therefore if this virus were made in a lab it would have those signatures.

A real scientist with close knowledge of the virus and the lab offered this.

Post by mike00632 » Mon, May 31, 2021, 3:09 AM UTC

swader999 wrote: post #328

mike00632 wrote: post #293

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The author of that article makes some claims that you should give some critical thought to: Some are pretty obviously wrong: - they say the virus hasn't mutated to become more suitable or transmissible in humans - they imply the first cases of COVID-19 were hospitalizations and imply that asymptomatic spread of the disease is not possible Then also the article claims that science hasn't tracked gene mutations of the…

You seriously miss read a lot of what was said in that article to post those claims. Re read slower and pay mind to the nuances.

Could you be more specific perhaps? Maybe you could take the time and explain to me the motives of using a novel base to hide the weapons research while also publishing said research because it's public and funded by grant money. Something about universities hiring evil secret agents doesn't seem plausible to me.

Re: More Scientists Urge Broad Inquiry into Coronavirus Origins

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