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I wonder if there's a group of people who are uniquely motivated to prove, or convince, that COVID is not a lab leak... It's been pointed out that a couple dec

I wonder if there's a group of people who are uniquely motivated to prove, or convince, that COVID is not a lab leak... It's been pointed out that a couple decades ago, we had this notion "conflict of interest": that someone too close to an issue is a poor choice to report on that issue, because everyone is influenced by their own self-interest. But now we have turned that idea completely on its head! We demand to hear only the opinions of "the experts"; who are in fact the same people who we used to describe as having a conflict of interest!

jjeaff 5y ago
Virology is far too complicated for non-experts to have any chance of finding a valid answer. We simply need to watch for and be careful of conflicts of interest. Any good expert, especially academic, knows the importance of disclosing conflicts and for bias, well, we can only hope that there are enough diverse experts that they will catch that.
derbOac 5y ago
I don't know why you're being downvoted. This issue is at the center of this controversy and many others that have nothing to do with COVID. You don't even have to accept the lab origin hypothesis to recognize the problems.