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"Leaked from a lab" and "created in a lab" are different issues.
by wrp 4y ago
"Leaked from a lab" and "created in a lab" are different issues.
- bitxbitxbitcoin 4y agoWith which one worse, objectively? And for whom?
- nwah1 4y agoThey are both a bad look for virology. And thus virologists would have a bias towards defending their profession.
- rogerkirkness 4y agoThe story about how various miners working in a cave with bats in it in China got pneumonia in 2016 and that virus was worked on at WIV seems most likely.
- lamontcg 4y agoRaTG13 is a thousand mutations and several decades of evolution away from SARS-CoV-2, you don't get from having RaTG13 in a lab to SARS-CoV-2. There's no evidence that WIV recovered whole virus of RaTG13 or cultured it. SARS-CoV-2 is not a chimera of a RaTG13 backbone and an ACE2-attaching spike, there's a lot more mutations involved. You also don't get there from serial passage experiments in a lab, you need serial passage through decades and many millions of infections in nature, we can't operate at that scale.