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Silver isn't arguing for-or-against the lab leak hypothesis here. > To be clear, I’m not sure how COVID originated either. I’d “buy” the lab leak at a 50 perce
by wk_end 3y ago
Silver isn't arguing for-or-against the lab leak hypothesis here.
> To be clear, I’m not sure how COVID originated either. I’d “buy” the lab leak at a 50 percent likelihood [...] and sell it at 80 percent, which still leaves a lot of wiggle room for me to be persuaded one way or the other.
This post is his commentary on leaked communications demonstrating that the authors of the paper themselves didn't believe the contents of the paper. This has nothing to do with a medical background or what the CDC believes; media savviness is precisely the qualification required here.
- stevenAthompson 3y agoHis citations for those claims about the authors are 3 substack blogs and something called "usrtk.org" which seems to exist largely to spread covid origin rumors. I'm going to go out on a limb a suggest that he's already made up his mind and much like Fox Mulder, he just wants to believe.
- wk_end 3y ago> We know this because of a series of leaked and FOIAed emails and Slack messages that have been reported on by Public, Racket News, The Intercept and The Nation along with other small, independent media outlets. You can find a detailed summary of the claims and a copy of the emails and messages here at Public. None of Public, Racket News, The Intercept, or The Nation are Substack blogs, nor are they publications that exist largely to spread COVID origin rumours.
- stevenAthompson 3y agoHe doesn’t link any of those. Only the blogs and the conspiracy site.