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It appears that we have a lot of data from the WIV lab [0]. The work there to survey bat coronaviruses was paid for by the American National Institute of Health
by mikem170 5y ago
It appears that we have a lot of data from the WIV lab [0]. The work there to survey bat coronaviruses was paid for by the American National Institute of Health. Duplicate samples were sent to other labs, across several countries. Genetic sequences were publicly posted, as per NIH funding rules.
(I encourage anybody interested in the lab-leak scenario to read more of the reddit post below, not just this one section. There a ToC link at the bottom of the post.)
[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/gk6y95/covid19_did_not_come_from_the_wuhan_institute_of/fqpce2z/ https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/gk6y95/covid19_did...
- remarkEon 5y agoIt's easy to accept that explanation because it logically follows, but it requires you to make extreme assumptions (the lab's competence/honesty stats approach 100%), which he seems prepared to do. But it's hard for me to apply those kinds of assumptions to a CCP organization, for reasons that should be quite obvious. That WIV is still refusing to allow outside investigators should cause one to adjust their priors on that competence/honesty spectrum.
- mikem170 5y agoTrue. I gave a lot more weight to the genetic evidence, the 1200 mutations from the nearest related bat virus, the receptor optimized for multiple species, evidence it was first seen in humans hundreds of miles form Wuhan, etc.