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Since there isn’t any evidence for either scenario I don’t think it’s at all accurate to say one possible origin is “the most plausible”. A lack of evidence for
by elliekelly 5y ago
Since there isn’t any evidence for either scenario I don’t think it’s at all accurate to say one possible origin is “the most plausible”. A lack of evidence for one does not give credence to the other and vice versa.
- adolph 5y agoBy observation of the night sky would you believe Copernicus or Ptolemy? Would you need to have evidence of the solar system's origins or is the decreased computation required for Copernicus enough to indicate it to be a superior explanation? https://farside.ph.utexas.edu/books/Syntaxis/Almagest/node4.html https://farside.ph.utexas.edu/books/Syntaxis/Almagest/node4....
- ProjectArcturis 5y agoTo say that "there isn't any evidence for either scenario" is willful ignorance.
- dang 5y agoPlease don't post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- fallingknife 5y agoIf I can't find my phone and I either left it somewhere in the house or on the Uber I took home last night, the longer I search my house and don't find it, the more likely it is that I left it on the Uber.
- swader999 5y agoThere is plenty of evidence. CCP cleaning house at Wuhan Institute and purging online references is one item to question.
- Paradigma11 5y agoNot really. The CCP is paranoid enough to do that either way.
- strken 5y agoYou think they wouldn't clean house if the virus had naturally hopped to humans but the WIV was still being publicly blamed? I think they responded to the accusation, not to the reality on the ground. That's not to say that I think it didn't come from the WIV, just that they'd act the same way regardless of where the first transmission occurred.
- swader999 5y agoI never really considered this point. Just assumed cover-up equals culpability. Thanks.