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It's wild to me that everyone is calling lab leak a politicized theory. I suppose flat earthers make heliocentrism and the laws of physics politicized theories
by kryogen1c 2y ago
It's wild to me that everyone is calling lab leak a politicized theory.
I suppose flat earthers make heliocentrism and the laws of physics politicized theories too, then.
- m0llusk 2y agoThe thing is that unlike political science, virology is an actual science. Scientists have found little evidence of coronavirus at the labs and there is record of them failing even to culture the virus which would be required for any research including gain of function research. In dramatic contrast samples from the wet market were easily cultured into multiple related strains which strongly points to the wet market as the source.
- int_19h 2y agoAll theories regarding COVID-19 origin are politicized simply because the question itself became a prominent political matter.
- pinkmuffinere 2y ago+1, the question of origin in general is politicized. I don’t think individual theories are taboo, it’s just very difficult to truly evaluate the evidence at this point, unless perhaps you are an expert and can do all the fact checking yourself.
- jfengel 2y agoHeliocentrism was politicized. The Galileo affair had a lot more to do with Church authority during the Reformation and Counter-Reformation than about cosmology. Galileo went out of his way to antagonize certain key players, and his punishment was primarily a political matter, not a scientific or even theological one.