Yikes. We’ll probably never know for sure, but looks like the lab-accident theory is not crackpottery. nymag.com/intelligencer/
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Nice of @NYMag to give @nicholsonbaker8 a 5000 word marketing package for his most recent nonfiction book...which is partly about lab accidents in the 1950s. twitter.com/NYMag/status/1…
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I don’t take ad hominems about the author being a BA in English rather than a microbiologist seriously. Play the ball. There’s a there there worth rebutting at least.
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That is not my evidentiary standard here. Circumstantial evidence is enough to entertain the hypothesis seriously and not dismiss it outright as crackpottery. Especially because China had the means, motive, and opportunity to cover up an accident.
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"..it was, I think, designed. Many thoughtful people dismiss this notion, and they may be right"
Okay so who is this person and what are their qualifications?
"Nicholson Baker (born January 7, 1957) is an American novelist and essayist"
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this guy has literally no evidence he's just sewing the seeds of distrust and misinformation
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You have robbed me of an opportunity to blast the UNC professor with my alma mater’s battle cry, “Go to Hell, Carolina.” Oh well. Even if it’s fiction, they can still GTH.
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