Why the pandemic probably started in a lab, in 5 key points
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#2>OPINION
>By Alina Chan
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#3And yet, shockingly, the consensus of the actually qualified remains that it didn’t start in a lab.
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#4And yet, shockingly, the consensus of the actually qualified remains that it didn’t start in a lab.
Who are the "actually qualified"?
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#6I'm curious to know to what extent these sorts of data-rich stories are templatized. My guess is that they're to the point where the components used in this piece were pulled from an existing widget library. Otherwise, that'd be a lot of effort for ... such an opinion piece.
Also, the native reading experience on Android is surprisingly bad. The content was scrolling out from under me unexpectedly and other times -- reminiscent of the old FOUC on the web. I also felt "stuck" while trying to navigate through some of the dataviz components.
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#7And yet, shockingly, the consensus of the actually qualified remains that it didn’t start in a lab.
Who are the "actually qualified"?
You may or may not enjoy reading through a full and lively debate that was well refereed with clear rules in advance with all the known and verified facts from all sides to hand in advance.
It went down like this:
Lableak truther loses $100,000 in his own debate
https://www.protagonist-science.com/p/lableak-truther-loses-...
Sure, a lableak origin is "possible" .. just very very very unlikely.
Re: Why the pandemic probably started in a lab, in 5 key points
#8And yet, shockingly, the consensus of the actually qualified remains that it didn’t start in a lab.
Who are the "actually qualified"?
The people who claim to be "actually qualified" are the same people who run (ran?) the show at the NIH that have been actively covering up their own opinion that the lab leak of the research they were funding is the most likely source of COVID-19.
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#9I thought this was a great summary of the "debate":
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/practically-a-book-review-r...
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#10And yet, shockingly, the consensus of the actually qualified remains that it didn’t start in a lab.
Who are the "actually qualified"?
Vincent Racaniello https://microbiology.columbia.edu/faculty-vincent-racaniello
He does not think this started in a lab.