With the publication of the Science letter, the Overton window for discussion of "lab leak" hypothesis has shifted dramatically. We now have mainstream scientific opinions that largely range between "lab leak can be dismissed" and "both zoonosis and lab leak are viable". 1/8
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One thing I've been interested in for a while is the fact that people see a novel virus identified near a famous lab and assume this must be causal, even though, well, where would we expect people to identify a novel virus most quickly?
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But this lab was creating novel batcovs and was testing new combinations of backbones & spike proteins for infectivity. It was also researching ratg13, the closest known relative of cov2. It also had safety warnings back in 2017. Nearest natural reservoir is thousands of km away
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What is that evidence, specifically? Lab leaks are common as well.pic.twitter.com/JQ4B2OWJbu
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Are they? There have been dozens of zoonotic outbreaks in the last decade alone (likely hundreds, but dozens of ~recorded~ outbreaks), how many lab leaks in that time?
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