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This whole article reads like a joke and settles absolutely nothing. That, despite the authors claims, Covid-19 was clearly of zoological orgin by large scienti
by TSiege 3y ago
This whole article reads like a joke and settles absolutely nothing. That, despite the authors claims, Covid-19 was clearly of zoological orgin by large scientific consensus, isn't true. Scientists even involved in papers purporting to disprove the lab leak have walked back their claims and now think it's even likely that it was.
The premise of this article as someone a source of truth is a complete farce. The "judgement" is essentially a bet that an "Israeli investor and poker player named Saar Wilf" has come up with some sort of algorithm to prove a lab leak origin. WHICH DOES NOT EXAMINE ACTUAL EVIDENCE OR DOES ANY REPORTING INTO THE LAB LEAK. The Computer Scientist and Biologist he asked to be his judges disagreed with him.
There is compelling evidence that a lab leak occurred. Lab leaks have occurred in the past. This isn't science fiction or paranoia. Real Scientists in Wuhan were sounding the alarm in 2018 that there was dangerous scientific research being taken with lax safety regulations. There were at least two labs working in Wuhan on coronaviruses. The best evidence that it originated with raccoon dogs is more of a hunch than proof, and even Chinese health officials said the report about raccoon dogs rule out lab leak entirely.
If you are at all interested, I'd highly recommend the BBC podcast, Fever: The Hunt for Covid's Origin. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001mdfw/episodes/player https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001mdfw/episodes/player
- ZeroGravitas 3y ago> That, despite the authors claims, Covid-19 was clearly of zoological orgin by large scientific consensus, isn't true. Here's a recent survey of virologists and infectious disease epidemiologists, with a smaller proportion of biosafety/biosecurity professionals and evolutionary geneticists. > the goal of this survey was to conduct a rigorous, geographically diverse, and anonymous survey of scientific experts regarding the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic https://gcrinstitute.org/papers/069_covid-origin.pdf https://gcrinstitute.org/papers/069_covid-origin.pdf They support the natural origin theory at roughly 4 to 1, not sure if you'd count that as a large scientific consensus but it's in the ballpark.
- baja_blast 3y agoYes but also 33% of those surveyed have heard of a fake study and less than 1/4 of them were aware of the DEFUSE proposal