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Your link is about "Conspiracy Theories About Origin of Coronavirus Outbreak" on social media which may cause "real consequences, including threats of violence
by T-A 7y ago
Your link is about "Conspiracy Theories About Origin of Coronavirus Outbreak" on social media which may cause "real consequences, including threats of violence that have occurred to our colleagues in China".
Parent's link is to a genomic analysis of COVID-19 trying to reconstruct its evolution, authored by researchers all working in China.
Unless you think that no attempt should be made to determine the origins of the virus because of what trolls might make of it, I don't see the problem. If you do think that trolls should have that power, it's pretty late to worry about it: the official narrative about it all having started in Wuhan's seafood market has been known to be incomplete at best for a while now:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/wuhan-seafood-market-may-not-be-source-novel-virus-spreading-globally https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/wuhan-seafood-market...
- MilnerRoute 7y ago"Known to be"? I really take issue with that phrase. As maddening as it may be, we DO NOT KNOW the origins of the virus. And after reading a new paper -- we still do not know. We have to stop acting like we do.
- T-A 7y ago> "Known to be"? > I really take issue with that phrase. That's your phrase, not mine. What I wrote is "the official narrative about it all having started in Wuhan's seafood market has been known to be incomplete at best for a while now". > As maddening as it may be, we DO NOT KNOW the origins of the virus Yes. That's what I said. You are arguing against your own position, not mine.