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The letter signed by scientists discrediting the lab leak theory has itself been discredited. You are far behind in the news. https://thepostmillennial.com/dr-

The letter signed by scientists discrediting the lab leak theory has itself been discredited. You are far behind in the news. https://thepostmillennial.com/dr-daszak-bullied-fellow-scientists-into-signing-letter-denouncing-coronavirus-lab-leak-theory https://thepostmillennial.com/dr-daszak-bullied-fellow-scien...

civilized 5y ago
I didn't care about that letter to begin with. Peter Daszak is obviously a creep trying to cover his ass. That doesn't change the fact that the origins of COVID are a hard scientific question that no one has figured out yet. If you're keeping up with the news, do you just read partisan polemics or do you actually keep up with the scientific developments? Here is an article on an exceptionally close bat coronavirus relative to the COVID coronavirus, which can bind to ACE2. The lab leak peanut gallery said such a thing didn't exist anywhere. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02596-2 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02596-2
- coupdejarnac 5y ago
  Almost all the references from point to articles written by Chinese scientists in the last year. Color me skeptical. Who among the proponents of the lab leak theory claim that the virus doesn't occur in nature? Nobody I am aware of. Perhaps the kooks who claim covid was completely manmade as a bioweapon or something. There is no transparency on this issue with China. There's a reason why there is a dearth of evidence- it's all been suppressed or destroyed.
  - civilized 5y ago
    > Almost all the references from point to articles written by Chinese scientists in the last year. Color me skeptical. Except the first reference, which is the entire point of the article: French scientists found bat coronaviruses very similar to SARS-CoV-2 in Laos. No more partisan posturing please. You are straining to defend preconceived notions by ignoring new information, rather than paying curious attention to the world around you. Turn politics brain off, turn science brain on.
    - coupdejarnac 5y ago
      No more partisan posturing please- look in the mirror, buddy.
      - civilized 5y ago
        What's the point of responding to something I posted in a way that completely ignores the main point? The main finding in that Science paper was from a team with a French leader and zero Chinese co-authors, as far as I can tell from the surnames. Your level of trust in Chinese scientists is completely irrelevant to the point that was made. What are you trying to do here? If you're not trying to learn, are you trying to play political debate and beat me? There's no audience to impress. You either learn something from our conversation or you don't. That's all that can come of this.

civilized 5y ago

I didn't care about that letter to begin with. Peter Daszak is obviously a creep trying to cover his ass. That doesn't change the fact that the origins of COVID are a hard scientific question that no one has figured out yet. If you're keeping up with the news, do you just read partisan polemics or do you actually keep up with the scientific developments? Here is an article on an exceptionally close bat coronavirus relative to the COVID coronavirus, which can bind to ACE2. The lab leak peanut gallery said such a thing didn't exist anywhere. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02596-2 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02596-2

coupdejarnac 5y ago
Almost all the references from point to articles written by Chinese scientists in the last year. Color me skeptical. Who among the proponents of the lab leak theory claim that the virus doesn't occur in nature? Nobody I am aware of. Perhaps the kooks who claim covid was completely manmade as a bioweapon or something. There is no transparency on this issue with China. There's a reason why there is a dearth of evidence- it's all been suppressed or destroyed.
- civilized 5y ago
  > Almost all the references from point to articles written by Chinese scientists in the last year. Color me skeptical. Except the first reference, which is the entire point of the article: French scientists found bat coronaviruses very similar to SARS-CoV-2 in Laos. No more partisan posturing please. You are straining to defend preconceived notions by ignoring new information, rather than paying curious attention to the world around you. Turn politics brain off, turn science brain on.
  - coupdejarnac 5y ago
    No more partisan posturing please- look in the mirror, buddy.
    - civilized 5y ago
      What's the point of responding to something I posted in a way that completely ignores the main point? The main finding in that Science paper was from a team with a French leader and zero Chinese co-authors, as far as I can tell from the surnames. Your level of trust in Chinese scientists is completely irrelevant to the point that was made. What are you trying to do here? If you're not trying to learn, are you trying to play political debate and beat me? There's no audience to impress. You either learn something from our conversation or you don't. That's all that can come of this.