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So you’re saying you formed an important opinion on a impactful topic without reviewing the evidence? Maybe you should change that

• CoastalCoder 5y ago
  GP was adding to the discussion by stating his/her thought process at the time. Not advocating that approach for the future.
• jjk166 5y ago
  There 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 ago
    There 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 ago
  The 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.