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The evidence for the lab leak theory is weak. You're assuming facts that most experts dispute.
by eli 3y ago
The evidence for the lab leak theory is weak. You're assuming facts that most experts dispute.
- laverya 3y agoThe evidence for every other theory is even weaker by any objective standard, though. EDIT: the evidence in favor of wet market zoonosis is what, exactly? "It's always been zoonosis in the past" plus "we (claim to have) first found this in a wet market" and maybe also "there's some RNA fragments in the wet market samples that show interesting animals plus covid"? As far as I'm aware that's it.
- jonhohle 3y ago[flagged]
- eli 3y agoNo, I mean a majority of all experts around the world. And I don't find it particularly damning that the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases was involved in the commission of one of many studies to determine the origin of an infectious disease.
- jonhohle 3y agoHaving the primary author not attach their name to the paper that they’ve secretly been asked to write and disseminate is typical?
- eli 3y agoWas this the most damning fact uncovered by the House investigation into this report? That there was a researcher working on it who wasn't properly credited? That in itself doesn't seem like reason to discard the report, let alone to reach the opposite conclusion. And of course there has been subsequent research by independent scientists who also reached the conclusion that a zoonotic origin is most likely. I'm not saying the lab leak theory has been conclusively disproved -- it hasn't -- but certainly neither has the wildlife theory.
- baja_blast 3y agoI bet Eli would only listen to Boeing executives and engineers directly tied to the Boeing 737 MAX' opinions on what caused the crash and how safe the systems are. Everyone else that disagrees is not and expert, only trust Boeing executives with extreme COI!
- eli 3y agoWho are the unbiased truth tellers here? House Republicans?