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Yesterday's thread on this pointed directly at the paper instead of a tweet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27598222 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
by m0llusk 5y ago
Yesterday's thread on this pointed directly at the paper instead of a tweet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27598222 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27598222
It seems odd that advocates of the lab leak theory frequently claim to have been silenced and yet have been spamming updates on almost popular every forum for weeks now.
- throwaway4good 5y agoI have heard they are being censored by a process called “peer review”. But now it seems like an influential journal by the name of “The Daily Mail” is picking it up: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9716531/More-proof-support-lab-leak-theory-China-DELETED-samples-earliest-patients.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9716531/More-proof-... Science will prevail.
- sundarurfriend 5y agoI was hoping there would be people here who understand the analyses and could comment on the degree of validity or importance of this. In that sense this submissions has been a disappointment so far. I was not aware of yesterday's submission, but the conversation there seems to only of slightly higher quality than here. I'm not attached to any particular theory of origin at this stage, just following the updates as a curious human being. Anyone who's spent time on the "new" queue would know that news updates on anything vaguely of interest to HNers gets posted multiple times, as different people come across it. It's a paradox about being silenced, though, that the only way that fact comes into public consciousness is when a few lucky individuals are able to break through it (like with oppression) or when its time runs out (like with time-limited censorship). So detractors always get to say "see, you're not actually silenced, stop lying!"