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Dr David Robert Grimes
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Cancer researcher, physicist, scoundrel. Author of #TheIrrationalApe / #GoodThinking. Science, Medicine, Foppish hair.

Dublin / Oxford
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Joined March 2011

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    Dr David Robert Grimes‏Verified account @drg1985 Jun 13

    Despite breathless reporting, Wuhan lab-leak narratives on origin of #COVID19 are supremely unlikely. Attributing blame for pandemics has an ugly, unedifying history, & only emboldens Conspiracy theorists - me in @guardian today on #LabLeak #LabLeakTheoryhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/13/newly-respectable-wuhan-lab-theory-remains-fanciful …

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      1. Patrick Denny‏ @draziraphale Jun 13
        Replying to @drg1985 @guardian

        Assertions that lab-leak hypotheses are supremely unlikely despite suppression of the scientific discussion by @BretWeinstein @HeatherEHeying needed to determine that,and saying attribution of blame only emboldens conspiracy theorists, are perjoratively anti-scientific

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      2. Mark Gilbert‏ @MathsGilbert Jun 13
        Replying to @drg1985 @guardian

        Virus origins: we'll never know for sure. What I do know: is that ideas moving from censored to acceptability and back at the drop of a hat is terrible for public discourse

        3 replies 0 retweets 14 likes
      3. Dr David Robert Grimes‏Verified account @drg1985 Jun 13
        Replying to @MathsGilbert @guardian

        It's hardly "censored" though - been in the WaPo, Vanity fair, everywhere online. NYT too. But that doesn't change the fact that it's still a supremely unlikely hypothesis because it's reliant on evidence free corollaries..

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      2. wooanon warrior‏ @wooanonwarrior Jun 13
        Replying to @jmichaelseyfert @drg1985 @guardian

        What conspiracies have come true? With evidence please. Thanks.

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      2. Stephen‏ @Stephenpedj Jun 13
        Replying to @drg1985 @guardian

        Another article which tries to deflect the issue! The only reasoning seems to be - - My credentials are good - I am writing for The Guardian - I have published a book on conspiracy theories 😏 So, believe whatever I throw at you!

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      2. Matt Harvey‏ @mattharveyt Jun 13
        Replying to @drg1985 @guardian

        Managing to “debunk” the lab-leak hypothesis without even mentioning GoF or explaining it is quite a feat of logical elision, even for a Gruan comment writer. The “great man” bromides only hint at dry rot in yr intellectual Potemkin Village btw.

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      3. Kaitain Jones‏ @kaitainjones Jun 13
        Replying to @mattharveyt @drg1985 @guardian

        The core premise is a straw man: that any lab leak involves human engineering. This is patently false.

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      2. Garreth McDaid‏ @garrethmcdaid Jun 13
        Replying to @drg1985 @guardian

        How likely is it that the first outbreak of disease occurred within 5km of the only lab in China that stores the closest known relative to SARS-Cov-2?

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      3. Len Dowling‏ @LenDowlingCork Jun 13
        Replying to @garrethmcdaid @drg1985 @guardian

        DRG is mustard when it comes to this stuff tbf.

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