This piece by Dan Rather is a good example of the motivated reasoning that has poisoned the discussion over covid origins, and ironically a very unscientific approach. Whether science is under attack or not should have zero bearing on investigating how the pandemic started.https://twitter.com/DanRather/status/1406611921256828930 …
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I'm not asking anyone to believe the evidence we have right now is adequate. But I wish commentators like Rather would stop conditioning their beliefs on the consequences of one answer or the other being right, and stop attacking the question itself as somehow harmful.
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The one thing that science is supposed to be best at—updating beliefs based on new evidence—is something we've consistently failed at all through the pandemic. The mantra of "believe the science" revealed itself as just an argument from authority dressed up in a lab coat.
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It will happen again, either way; pandemics - as you no doubt know - are a part of our history (no labs for the Black Death).
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I don’t disagree with you, but whatever the cause, even if we find out what it is, it’s probably gonna happen again.
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Isn't knowing that it could have happened enough? Feels to me like the lesson is there anyway, regardless of whether it comes from experimentation in this particular case.
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Is the actual answer that important though? Could the virus escape from the lab? Yes, it could. Whether our confidence in that actually happening this time around is 5% or 95%, shouldn’t we act the same?
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I think the specifics matter a great deal. Lab escape is an umbrella term for a whole bunch of different scenarios.
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