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New evidence emerges against Covid lab-leak theory – but press keeps pushing it
- 0xdeadb00f 5y agoI'd just like to say that I find it incredibly.. frustrating that an article is written about people not writing an article about something... Instead of writing a bunch of articles about that something?
- FooBarBizBazz 5y agoThere was a Joe Rogan interview with Tulsi Gabbard that degenerated into a doom-loop like this, of them both enthusiastically agreeing over and over that "nobody talks about the issues". They were so obviously set up perfectly for a segue to a discussion about... any issue... and their conspicuous, almost panicked, refusal to do that really stood out to me. The reason, it seemed clear to me, is that this was exactly as deep as either could venture.
- vfclists 5y agoDespite mounting evidence that the virus reached humans through natural pathways — from infected animals such as bats — the lab-leak hypothesis recently jumped back into the news, thanks to CNN, the investigative news site the Intercept, and the Atlantic. Where is the so described "mounting evidence"? A paper posted online earlier this month chiefly by researchers at France’s Institut Pasteur and under consideration for publication in a Nature journal, however, reports that three viruses were found in bats living in caves in northern Laos with features very similar to SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19. Is that all? Is Peter Daszak the sponsor of this article?
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