Both this and the originally linked article are long on politics and conspiracies and short on science, which is why the responses end up being political. The i

Both this and the originally linked article are long on politics and conspiracies and short on science, which is why the responses end up being political. The interesting questions here are not about CCP secrecy but about mutation rates in different environments and how effectively scientists can engineer mutations versus evolving them. It would be much more convincing evidence of lab leaks if examples of effective gain of function mutations being injected by scientists (or some kind of accelerated evolution by manipulating lab conditions) could be discussed and explained. There won’t be a scientific conclusion based on an analysis of what media leaked what when.