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by kaesar14 5y ago
Right - instead of trying to debate the veracity of the argument, it was immediately cast as a political battle, and being on the same side as Trump in most urban and most media circles was asking to be ostracized. It’s absolutely poisonous
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by kaesar14 5y ago
The lab wasn’t conducting bioweapon research. Gain of function research isn’t to create a bioweapon, nominally. It’s to examine the behavior of viruses under manipulation in order to better understand how we can respond to them given an out
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We didn’t have the same confluence of other circumstantial evidence we do in this case. There’s no good reason to think Ebola came from a lab.
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They would’ve had a better chance of being taken seriously if it wasn’t actively a bannable offense to talk about them on major social media websites.
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Why? Im not passing judgement on whether it was engineered as a bioweapon. But there was a lab that was actively engaged in research of viruses that are exactly what COVID is. They were conducting research on making said viruses more infect
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It’s crazy to me how many people on even this forum, a place purportedly of science, continue to dismiss a lab leak origin out of hand citing it as some sort of crackpot theory. The serious questions raised in this article have been around
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by kaesar14 5y ago
As pointed out in the article, there were exactly 3 cities in the world working on gain-of-function research related to bat-originated coronaviruses. Galveston, Texas, Chapel Hill N.C, and Wuhan. It’s way more narrow than just being near a
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by kaesar14 5y ago
Doesn't look like based on the graph in the top level comment of this post that made much of a difference at all.
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Counterpoint: If we cannot switch to those other kinds of renewables in a reasonable amount of time compared to Nuclear, we're leaving them with a way bigger clusterfuck in the form of runaway greenhouse gas driven global warming.
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by kaesar14 5y ago
Well for those of us in dense urban areas, we don't have a backyard and you could really go on a walk whenever it damn well pleased you anyway
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Those jobs suck and pay 9 bucks an hour.
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What could be done to alter the range? It seems like when there’s something like high school that everyone experiences, there’s bound to be good and bad. Also had a deeply positive experience in high school. For all its faults in America, a
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by kaesar14 5y ago
Trust the science essentially became hijacked by the anti-Trump crowd, and became a dogma of "trust the scientists the media tells us to" instead of supporting the spirit of free debate and free exchange of ideas.
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by kaesar14 5y ago
I posted this same article on the post that came up about India censorship on a thread that discussed lab leaks. Fantastic article that lays out how much circumstantial evidence was in place for a lab leak hypothesis. Enough that we should&
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The only fact that wasn’t known at the time was how long we hadn’t figured out a zoonotic origin for the virus. That’s the only one. To your second point, if there are things that cant be explained about the theory using available evidence
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They are all quite strong of facts. There's an easily explainable origin of the virus, being the lab. If you read the article there is even an explanation about the exact virus this seems to be quite similar to that was discovered in 2
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My original claim was that the scientists who wrote that letter and went to the press saying it was a natural origin helped frame the debate in a political lens rather than a scientific one. It became politically expedient for many mainstre
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by kaesar14 5y ago
You’re conflating two different things. Peter Daszak’s original statements and articles about COVID and its origins last year led to a significant amount of pressure within the scientific community to not even look for a possible origin inv
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by kaesar14 5y ago
The time it took you to ask what a lakh or crore is in this comment was probably longer than googling what these units used by a billion people are.
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The circumstantial evidence both then and now was largely favor of lab leaks. Members of the scientific community with a potential culpability in a lab leak helped silence discourse by framing it as a political issue as opposed to a scienti
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by kaesar14 5y ago
You may have heard of this company Tesla based in Silicon Valley, one of the largest companies by market cap in the world, just led an electric car revolution that's inspired automakers worldwide to shift off IC engines
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by kaesar14 5y ago
Are you joking? There are plenty of conversations on Hackernews about electric vehicles, it just so happens that replacing every single car in the world with a totally different energy system is a way harder problem than banning useless cry
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by kaesar14 5y ago
None of those other acquisitions should’ve been allowed either
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"Tech" companies here encompasses quite a broad list of markets. Just because Apple and Amazon managed to upend expectations doesn't mean that Tesla will. Most of these gigantic technology companies are software companies tha
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by kaesar14 5y ago
Maybe over ONE round of 18, but winning the world's most prestigious prize, twice, for your work never coming up in 30 years? Frankly, that's quite amazing.
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Or, perhaps, someday in the 31st century, they'll be amazed at our startling lack of progress in the 21st century before the cascade of incredible breakthroughs in the years following. Who knows, really, what the "low hanging frui
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by kaesar14 5y ago
Do you go around asking people if they've won a Nobel Prize? Really, what's appealing here is living modestly in a time before it was so easy to find out who someone was by typing their name into a search bar. Bardeen did his work
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by kaesar14 5y ago
I suppose in the case of Caesar, one must be able to talk and do - if we consider his narrative as mostly grounded in fact, which I do.
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Wouldn’t have guessed! Thanks, and really interesting article :)
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Bardeen was an amazing guy. I love this quote from his Wikipedia article in particular: "Bardeen was a scientist with a very unassuming personality. While he served as a professor for almost 40 years at the University of Illinois, he w

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