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You'll forgive me for sticking with my view that if the actual experts who had campaigned against certain types of gain of function research including SARS rese
by notahacker 2y ago
You'll forgive me for sticking with my view that if the actual experts who had campaigned against certain types of gain of function research including SARS research for years generally don't attach any credibility to "COV-SARS-2 was obviously the product of gain of function research" arguments, so that domain was left to people unaware that furin cleavage sites were present in other coronaviruses and random politicos, people who raise it as established fact after making a series of largely unrelated antivax talking points might be considerably closer to Alex Jones than to people who have detailed knowledge of these systems....
- photochemsyn 2y agoAppeal to authority isn't a very good argument when so many of the experts who've gone on the record promoting the natural origin theory are weighed down with conflicts of interest due to the fact that the funding agencies they rely on have a lot to lose if it turns out the gain-of-function / lab-accident theory is correct (e.g. the authors and architects of the infamous 'Proximal Origin' paper). There are also many experts who are convinced the gain-of-function accident is the only plausible scenario at this point. Hopefully we'll have some comprehensive public hearings into the question in the coming year, at least in the United States, which I look forward to.