I also didn’t write much about the media angle—and how much fairy basic stuff was essentially unreported in traditional western media—with US media lagging more than most. @KatherineEban’s piece was key to breaking through and deserves extra appreciation for that. 
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This is an amazing piece, featuring quotes from Dr. Ralph Baric—one of world’s foremost scientists on bat coronaviruses, and co-author of Dr. Shi of WIV on that 2015 paper with the chimeric virus. *Really* worth your time. By
@rowanjacobsen in@techreview. https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/29/1027290/gain-of-function-risky-bat-virus-engineering-links-america-to-wuhan/ …pic.twitter.com/OSSCrcC8JB
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Except people have been discussing biosafety with regard to SARS-CoV-2 for months now. For those of us who actually work on pathogens in the lab, it's a daily focus. It's been a topic of discussion for years prior to the pandemic, as the thread you posted demonstrates.
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Have the Chinese labs been taking it as seriously? Wouldn't some press help push things along in the right direction?
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This thread you link to calls the lab leak theory "comically silly," therefore undermining your entire article. So thanks for linking.
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It's about the FCS being engineered. It's a good thread!
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Biosafety is indeed very important, and the field has changed quite a bit since many of your cited examples. I suggest for your next article you talk to an expert or two about it! There are many I am happy to recommend.
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I mean...she could talk to you, about that and about the errors in her piece about supposed "lab leaks" of yore, but that would require a willingness to engage meaningfully with expert criticism.
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I think it is a valid scientific question to ask whether one could detect “engineering” and what type of methods could help us do that. By way of analogy, scientists develop methods to detect “engineered” diamond. Don’t see why it should be any different for biology.
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