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In reply to the discussion: Cnet: How the coronavirus origin story is being rewritten by a guerrilla Twitter group [View all]stopdiggin
(11,285 posts)And (unfortunately) there are plenty of that class that see the usefulness of a stick that they can use to beat up an adversary. No need to surrender that stick ahead of time. Same ol'.
I would ordinarily be completely in with statements about 'investigation' and 'analysis' except during times when those innocuous words are seized upon and exploited by the ever widening band of conspiracy loons. Now-a-days we have to have a deep state story to cover every contingency. At this time the answers may not be definitive (and perhaps can never be) but a large portion of the scientific community have coalesced around the position that there is virtually no evidence for lab creation/lab escape narrative. And I see no reason to challenge that position without really convincing evidence to the contrary. Meaning -- inference, innuendo and 'suggestive' aren't going to cut it at this time. I'm sticking with the scientists (the majority of them) on this one.
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(The argument surrounding whether the scientific community should be harvesting and studying potential pathogens -- from the wild and/or lab grown -- is, to my mind, a separate discussion. And an interesting one with some twists and turns. But, again -- really no suggestion that this is what happened here.)