I'm happy with that as long as the virology community is quietly rethinking creating new viruses just to explore the possible.
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The main problem is that people tend to associate "lab leak" with "man made" which are on two whole different levels of gravity.
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Is your PhD in conspiracy theory?
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GORSKI'S LAW: A Skeptic Ends Discussion by Calling You Anti-Vax https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/gorskis-law-a-skeptic-ends-discussion … Quacking that everyone is a medical quack, David Gorski is America’s most famed debunker of pseudoscience and a clinical case study in 'argumentum ad anti-vax.'
#OriginsOfCovid
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Not to mention, if it ends up being true, it just makes it a true conspiracy theory.
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Old enough to remember the media obsession with the origin of HIV in the 1990s. It didn’t seem driven by dispassionate scientific inquiry. Just pointed fingers at Africans and gay men. These conspiracy theorists want to blame Chinese ppl for covid raging out of control in

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Correct. There *is*, of course, a small chance that they might be accidentally correct, but it's a very small chance and not worth holding back criticizing their appeals to bad science and conspiracy theories for.
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This is why the possibility of lab leak origin was downplayed even though a plausible hypothesis because many would spin elaborate conspiracies from it ...
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But the problem with that is that suppressing the idea or dismissing it without consideration is what fuels and strengthens the conspiracy theory. Best approach is an open, transparent investigation and discussion of origins.
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