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This theory has been mainstream since before Covid. At the time of the laboratory's inception as a BSL-4 facility, Nature published an article describing worri
by totalZero 5y ago
This theory has been mainstream since before Covid.
At the time of the laboratory's inception as a BSL-4 facility, Nature published an article describing worries that China would be unable to contain pathogens there. Here's a PDF:
https://www.nature.com/news/polopoly_fs/1.21487!/menu/main/topColumns/topLeftColumn/pdf/nature.2017.21487.pdf https://www.nature.com/news/polopoly_fs/1.21487!/menu/main/t...
- dqv 5y agoI guess mainstream is the wrong word for it. During the Trump administration, it seemed like there was an effort to suppress the theory by associating the lab leak theory with Trump supporters. I also recall an Indian virologist trying to suggest SARS-CoV-2 had been modified to have parts of HIV in its genetic material.
- 07121941 5y agoI agree, seems like it got memory-holed, or at least lumped as tinfoil-hat bs