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Weigh the importance of the research against the risk of the research process itself causing tens of thousands of deaths, and the confidence that the researcher
by hirundo 7y ago
Weigh the importance of the research against the risk of the research process itself causing tens of thousands of deaths, and the confidence that the researchers have sufficiently protected against that risk.
Anyone who has that kind of confidence in the Wuhan laboratory researchers is operating from a different set of facts than I am.
- gumby 7y ago> Anyone who has that kind of confidence in the Wuhan laboratory researchers is operating from a different set of facts than I am. What set of facts do you have access to? I haven’t any reason to believe that lab is particularly bad, so would be glad to learn something additional.
- daver00 7y agoState Department cables warned of safety issues at Wuhan lab studying bat coronaviruses https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/14/state-department-cables-warned-safety-issues-wuhan-lab-studying-bat-coronaviruses/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/14/state-dep...
- gumby 7y agoThanks, that’s useful. The WaPo should have done a lot better, specifically by asking the Galveston people what they thought: had anything gotten better in the last two years? Or worse? The cable said they were asking for assistance and in two yearsthey might well have received it — or not.