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If you want people to take seriesly the idea of COVID-19 coming from a lab then be scientific about it and offer up some ways to make it falsifiable. Otherwise
by mike00632 5y ago
If you want people to take seriesly the idea of COVID-19 coming from a lab then be scientific about it and offer up some ways to make it falsifiable. Otherwise it's simply not scientific, and almost everyone here pushing that theory is ignoring the evidence against it or modifying the conspiracy to fit the facts that contradict it. It's not constructive right now.
The hypothesis that COVID-19 came from an animal, namely a bat, in Wuhan China is independently suggested by multiple areas of science (genetics and epidemiology). It's also in line with similar outbreaks that happened in the past. The science of this is about as "unsettled" as the the theory of evolution vs creationism.
- snet0 5y agoI politely recommend you do more research into the subject. It won't change your conclusions, but the state of affairs is very much not settled. Also, here's your falsifiability: when it can be shown that the virus is zoonotic in origin, the other theories of its origin are falsified. I do not believe that the virus was engineered in a lab at this point, but turning this into tribe warfare will not help anything. Saying that the opinion you disagree with is unscientific and comparing it to creationism just shows you aren't looking to have an actual conversation.
- XorNot 5y agoThe initial probability of "novel new virus" is not "it was made in a lab / escape a lab".
- mike00632 5y agoFalsifiability would be something like: we know what the genetics of lab-made viruses look like; they have certain base pair signatures; therefore if this virus were made in a lab it would have those signatures. A real scientist with close knowledge of the virus and the lab offered this.