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Are those materials linked anywhere? The opinion pieces linked in the letter are not persuasive, it would be better to see the actual source materials before de

• blululu 3y ago
  Yep, the intercept article has a good summary and also provides a link to the sources: https://theintercept.com/2023/07/12/covid-documents-house-republicans/ https://theintercept.com/2023/07/12/covid-documents-house-re... https://www.documentcloud.org/app?q=%2Bproject%3Asubcommittee-on-coronavir-213954%20 https://www.documentcloud.org/app?q=%2Bproject%3Asubcommitte...
  • YeGoblynQueenne 3y ago
    From the Intercept article (quoting Andrew Rambaut, one of the authors): >> “I personally think we should get away from all the strange coincidence stuff. I agree it smells really fishy but without a smoking gun it will not do us any good,” he wrote. “The truth is never going to come out (if [lab] escape is the truth). Would need irrefutable evidence. My position is that the natural evolution is entirely plausible and we will have to leave it at that. Lab passaging might also generate this mutation but __we have no evidence that that happened__.” >> Not that discussing it isn't fun (My underlining) The email and Slack messages' significance has been overblown. The communications make it clear that the authors of the paper had no evidence to support a lab leak theory. It is obvious this whole thing is played for political gains, much like the email leaks of climate scientists a few years ago where held up by "skeptics" as evidence that the whole climate change thing was made up.