Should be irrelevant isn't the same as is irrelevant. You can't derive ought from is. The methods of science and peer review and open debate only work when a m

Should be irrelevant isn't the same as is irrelevant. You can't derive ought from is. The methods of science and peer review and open debate only work when a majority of the participants are good faith disinterested truth seekers. When bad faith motivated reasoners start to crowd out the former, you end up with something akin to a show-trial. The process is technically followed by the result is a fraud. There is so much political interest in the lab leak question that I think good faith scientists are strongly outnumbered. There's a truth value to the lab leak question, but I can't possibly expect to know it in this environment. Anyone making a claim to the contrary is a bullshitter.