Still confused why suddenly everyone started talking about the furin cleavage site CGG CGG after the Wade article came out. The SARS2 sequence was already published in Jan 2020 more than a year ago. But the strangest thing about the FCS is this:https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1343552205295648769 …
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Obtuse question. The "why" is that an highly experienced, well connected, science journalist made something that previously had been known to an audience of dozens now known to an audience of thousands. (This is what journalists do.)
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The journalist had written a contentious book that was criticized by numerous scientists. I had seen many scientists dismissing the medium piece because of that. That's why I'm wondering why this article? vs the
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Replying to @Ayjchan @R_H_Ebright and
to be quite honest i think it is because trump is not in power. trump was super polarizing which makes conversation really difficult r value for lab leak discussions was below 1 cause people didn’t want to be lumped in with the many other conspiracy theorists in public discourse
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but also discussions online about this were heavily throttled down by the algorithms, but i don’t think they kick in for major media outlets
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Replying to @DanielleFong @R_H_Ebright and
But the article was posted in Medium.
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hmm, right. i’m not sure why it wasn’t flagged and terminated by the algorithm. possible that those restrictions have come off. or just that it was an accessible article for bringing people through the argument
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Another possible contributing factor: it wasn't widely shared by *people already flagged by the algo* because of the nytimes association
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