Y
HN Search
Hacker News Search
new
|
comments
|
top
|
jobs
cranberried
searching PlanetScale…
1.
▲
2.
▲
3.
▲
4.
▲
5.
▲
6.
▲
3 ms
·
1.
▲
by
cranberried
4y ago
I perosonally believe any US research there was purely alturistic in intention - actually finding vaccines and cures to bat coronaviruses. Scientific hubris is a simple and "satisfying" explanation for the leak.
2.
▲
by
cranberried
4y ago
He is not saying it came out of a US lab. He is saying it came from US lab biotechnology. I.e. from US tech and funding for gain-of-function research; The suspected culprit was banned in the US in 2014: https://www.nature.com
3.
▲
by
cranberried
4y ago
Your statement on preferring "open maybe evil, maybe sometimes accountable power" holds true for me too. However it is not black-or-white; The powerful could vary in their transparancy. Some things must always be convert, e.g. mil