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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd9qjjj4zy5o https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd9qjjj4zy5o
by jpfromlondon 1y ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd9qjjj4zy5o https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd9qjjj4zy5o
- Hasnep 1y ago> The review offered on Saturday is based on "low confidence" which means the intelligence supporting it is deficient, inconclusive or contradictory. There is no consensus on the cause of the Covid pandemic. The article literally says there is no consensus.
- jpfromlondon 1y agoI was merely addressing your accusation of "out-of date information", I'm not the original commenter.
- pxc 1y ago1. That's the CIA 2. The lab leak hypothesis is geopolitically convenient for the US 3. They explicitly state "low confidence" in their affirmation of this hypothesis
- jpfromlondon 1y ago1. Nobody suggested we exclude inconvenient intelligence organisations. 2. Irrelevent because: 3. Low confidence, but probable merely implies plausibility, at least a somewhat higher likelihood than a wild previously unencountered zoonotic. Based on all publicly available information it does seem more likely, the CIA will be better informed than the public, if they (and others) concur then I don't see why we need to dismiss it.