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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 4
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      Yikes. We’ll probably never know for sure, but looks like the lab-accident theory is not crackpottery.https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-escape-theory.html …

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 4
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      Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Dr. Angela Rasmussen

      Counterpointshttps://twitter.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1346232195430510592 …

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      Dr. Angela RasmussenVerified account @angie_rasmussen
      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. https://twitter.com/NYMag/status/1346083776594636804 …
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        1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 4
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          Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Carl T. Bergstrom

          https://twitter.com/ct_bergstrom/status/1346322082871721984 …

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          Carl T. BergstromVerified account @CT_Bergstrom
          To conclude, I find it unlikely that SARS-CoV-2 is a product of a gain-of-function experiment gone awry. But the fact that it *could be* should make us very reluctant to conduct such gain-of-function work going forward, at least in the absence of extraordinary need.
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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 4
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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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        1. Varun Adibhatla‏ @vr00n Jan 4
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          Baker would have been better off reusing his extensive FOIA research to produce 3-part netflix docutainment on Lab accidents.

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