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>He is not saying it came out of a US lab. He is saying it came from US lab biotechnology. I.e. from US tech and funding for gain-of-function research; The susp
by vegai_ 4y ago
>He is not saying it came out of a US lab. He is saying it came from US lab biotechnology. I.e. from US tech and funding for gain-of-function research; The suspected culprit was banned in the US in 2014:
Ah, thanks for the correction.
>It seems absurd to say it came from a US lab when the original outbreak was in Wuhan. The virology lab there was supported with US funding and research.
I accepted that this is conspiracy theory level stuff... but... if one were to make a covert biological weapons attack on another country, what better place is there to plant it but right next to their own biotech labs? This doesn't survive contact with Occam's Razor at all, but I don't know, might be a plot point in a mediocre thriller.
- cranberried 4y agoI perosonally believe any US research there was purely alturistic in intention - actually finding vaccines and cures to bat coronaviruses. Scientific hubris is a simple and "satisfying" explanation for the leak.