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"Some scientist" = couple doctors "whistle blowers" without virology background, couple blogger journalists, and couple activists who got on Beijing's shit list
by dirtyid 5y ago
"Some scientist" = couple doctors "whistle blowers" without virology background, couple blogger journalists, and couple activists who got on Beijing's shit list for wrongthink politics. Aka exactly zero scientists with credible subject matter knowledge. Whistle blowers were initially "correctly" punished for spreading rumors that literal SARs came back, later their images rehabilitated as "heros" for domestic politics. The other four were put in shitlist for suggesting PRC covid19 response would be China's Chernobyl, and were in hindsight spectacularly wrong. None of them ever endorsed position on lab leak.
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- natch 5y agoNevertheless, these are people who apparently have been disappeared by the Chinese government. That's not something to be brushed off lightly. Not only because of the effects on them personally and (best case scenario) their careers. But also because of the chilling impact on scientific and public discourse.