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It's important to be clear: they don't overlap at all. They are objectively independent arguments. If they overlapped you couldn't say this: "SARS-CoV-2 leake
by xbar 5y ago
It's important to be clear: they don't overlap at all.
They are objectively independent arguments.
If they overlapped you couldn't say this: "SARS-CoV-2 leaked from the Wuhan lab" and "SARS-CoV2 was not man-made". But you can.
- wearywanderer 5y agoIt's not clear to me what you mean by "they don't overlap at all". If I create a truth table for the two binary possibilities of 'leaked?' and 'created?', I get something like this: Created, Leaked: It was created in a lab, and accidentally got out. Not Created, Leaked: It was being studied in a lab, and accidentally got out. Created, Not Leaked: It was created in a lab and deliberately released (the biowarfare hypothesis.) Not Created, Not Leaked: The lab had nothing to do with it at all (the wet market hypothesis.) Created/leaked are independent, but since both or either could be true or false, there seems to be 'overlap.'