The most annoying #LabLeak advocates of all are the ones who *swear* they believe that #SARSCoV2 has a natural origin, but nonetheless insist we REALLY need to investigate lab origin because…reasons…and then act indignant and wounded when you point out how implausible it is.
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I’ll change my mind if anyone produces compelling evidence. Right now, though,
#LabLeakTheory is basically an appeal to ignorance, often based on risibly incompetent molecular biology and genocide. Want to change doubters’ minds? Produce some actual scientific evidence!Show this thread -
I mean, geez, people! Cherry picking Fauci’s emails? This is getting into Climategate territory.

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I prefer to focus on whether it is true and couldn't care less who else does or doesn't think so. Sadly it took Jesse Bloom coming forward for people to take it seriously. The arguments should stand or fall on their own merits.
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The media described it as “debunked.” Is that accurate? And what % chance are you talking about when you say possible but “implausible”? Ballpark numbers: 25% chance? 10% chance? When the media called it a “debunked” “conspiracy theory,” that seemed to suggest <1% chance.
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It’s no more or less “dodgy” than the evidence for natural emergence - which is equally circumstantial. Neither (1) it happened this way before or (2) if accepted, it would probably fuck up the careers of virologists are dispositive arguments.
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