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It's not going to be possible to prove lab origin w/o Chinese cooperation. However, lab origin should not be totally dismissed, so we can have a discussion abo
by antattack 5y ago
It's not going to be possible to prove lab origin w/o Chinese cooperation.
However, lab origin should not be totally dismissed, so we can have a discussion about safety of gain-of-function research now, rather than waiting for some verifiable event to happen in the future.
- kossTKR 5y agoWhy are people acting like China is doing anything in isolation? The Wuhan Lab was funded through the american Ecohealth alliance, and a dozen american scientists probably know just as much as the Chinese do. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27071432 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27071432
- fullshark 5y agoI don't know who is acting like that, but that's the kind of thing that becomes very interesting if you believe COVID leaked from a lab and not appeared suddenly at a wet market.
- antattack 5y agoAccording to this fact-check only small amount, 600k USD, was distributed to the Ecohealth Alliance/Wuhan: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/05/04/fact-check-obama-administration-did-not-send-3-7-m-wuhan-lab/3061490001/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/05/04/fac...