U.S. government debunks Covid lab-leak conspiracy theory
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Re: U.S. government debunks Covid lab-leak conspiracy theory
#2It hardly debunks it. Scroll to the bottom of page four in the original report.
I treat this whole thing just like every other government message; could be this, could be that, could be a combination of both. If anyone takes any message from any government agency from any country as gospel truth they are delusional.
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#3lol
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#4The whole, entire US government debunked it! Phew. I can sleep easy at night now...
Who writes these headlines anyways...
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#5> The lab-leak conspiracy gang has smeared scientists and misled the public into believing a theory that has no factual support whatsoever. They should be ashamed.
Cleverly disguised opinion article. The USG debunked nothing. The official stance of the US has been the pangolin-soup theory since 2020. The USG still has to contend with a large contingent of actual scientists who have evidence otherwise.
I guess I didn't expect any different from the LA times. Objectively speaking the US government has a vested interest in keeping China-US relations slightly less than lukewarm for the time being. They hardly can be considered an impartial arbiter of truth and after the latest ruling against Biden pressuring social media companies you can be certain "truth" is very flexible in the white house.
Re: U.S. government debunks Covid lab-leak conspiracy theory
#6The whole, entire US government debunked it! Phew. I can sleep easy at night now... Who writes these headlines anyways...
> Who writes these headlines anyways...
A Pulitzer prize winning journalist. Lab leak is dead.
Re: U.S. government debunks Covid lab-leak conspiracy theory
#7The thing that tickles my conspiracy theorist, is that the outbreak originated 2 km from the lab that gain-of-function research into SARS-2 strains was outsourced to.
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#8The thing that tickles my conspiracy theorist, is that the outbreak originated 2 km from the lab that gain-of-function research into SARS-2 strains was outsourced to.
Could be correlation. There's pretty plausible reason to have a cutting edge research lab close to the highest risk place for natural outbreaks of the viruses it studies.
Re: U.S. government debunks Covid lab-leak conspiracy theory
#9It hardly debunks it. Scroll to the bottom of page four in the original report. I treat this whole thing just like every other government message; could be this, could be that, could be a combination of both. If anyone takes any message from any government agency from any country as gospel truth they are delusional.
> Scroll to the bottom of page four in the original report.
The bottom of page four of the report states the WIV institute's genetic engineering capabilities and that it has likely conducted some engineering of coronaviruses. Does that constitute proof of WIV engineering the COVID19 virus and the virus leaked from the lab?
Not an expert but from page three of the report:
"Almost all IC agencies assess that SARS-CoV-2 was not genetically engineered. Most agencies assess that SARS-CoV-2 was not laboratory-adapted; some are unable to make a determination. All IC agencies assess that SARS-CoV-2 was not developed as a biological weapon."
Re: U.S. government debunks Covid lab-leak conspiracy theory
#10As usual with most contrarians, their response is just that things are an ever larger conspiracy.