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That's not how the occam's razor work though... Also, we just didn't do GoF research or even had virology labs before the 1950-60s.
by mardifoufs 5y ago
That's not how the occam's razor work though... Also, we just didn't do GoF research or even had virology labs before the 1950-60s.
- ImaCake 5y agoLike you say, we couldn’t even do GoF when HIV and pandemic influenza became a thing. Why take seriously the feeble efforts of humans to recreate evolution in a lab when the real thing has demonstrated it’s terrifying effectiveness many many times?
- s1artibartfast 5y agoWE absolutely have done successful GOF research with influenzas and coronavirus. There is a vast literature on the subject.
- mardifoufs 5y agoI don't necessarily disagree, I don't necessarily believe in the lab leak theory. I just think that we don't know, and might never know because we have such a limited understanding of the early days of the virus. Hence why I don't think occam's razor does not apply; we are at a weird crossroad where technology is advanced enough to make it entirely possible for us to "evolve" a virus in a lab yet we also are pretty vulnerable and defenseless against zoonotic viruses in the same way humans have been for hundreds of thousands of years.
- jupp0r 5y agoWell, it's very likely that the 1977 "russian flu" pandemic was caused by a Chinese lab leak during vaccine research [1]. https://theprint.in/science/lab-leak-is-the-biggest-suspect-in-1977-flu-pandemic-but-it-took-3-decades-to-gain-currency/669907/ https://theprint.in/science/lab-leak-is-the-biggest-suspect-...
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