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I think, like me, many dismissed the lab-leak theory because it sounded like yet-another attempt to push the blame for all the unnecessary death from Trump to C
by HappySweeney 5y ago
I think, like me, many dismissed the lab-leak theory because it sounded like yet-another attempt to push the blame for all the unnecessary death from Trump to China, as well as the cavalcade of doctors stating that the DNA of the virus was clearly not artificially constructed.
- imwillofficial 5y agoSo you’re saying you formed an important opinion on a impactful topic without reviewing the evidence? Maybe you should change that
- CoastalCoder 5y agoGP was adding to the discussion by stating his/her thought process at the time. Not advocating that approach for the future.
- jjk166 5y agoThere was no evidence to review. Even now the whole reason we are having this discussion is because over a year later there has still not been an adequate investigation and lots of statements made early on have since been shown to be false. And frankly, in the absence of evidence, some guy getting sick from bad meat at a market is a much simpler explanation than an artificially created virus escaped from an institution with good safety standards. Only after an extensive search for the host has come back empty and the institution's actions have been found to be questionable does occam's razor meaningfully shift, and even then it's still hardly certain that this alternative theory is actually correct.
- vimy 5y agoThere was plenty of evidence from the start.[1] There isn’t really much new evidence now, the only thing that changed is that Trump is gone. [1] https://project-evidence.github.io/ https://project-evidence.github.io/
- HappySweeney 5y agoThe only conclusion I came to was that the virus was not artificial in origin. I did suspect it was not a lab-leak, though, due to the purported difficulty of a virus escaping a level 4 facility.