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When people asked Winston Churchill what to do about Pétain after he surrendered to the Nazis he said he obviously needed to be fired but also added “May we never find ourselves in the circumstances that broke that man”. Have some fricking grace for the people thrust in to the position of having to make societal impacting decisions with very little data and evidence. Yes mistakes were made. Get the frick over it already. This was four fricking years ago (-13)

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Nah dude, pure coincidence  (3)

You understand that the lab was put next to the wet market for a reason right? It was because new diseases were coming out of the wet market.I'm curious why so many people are more likely to believe the fringe theories than they are the consensus. (-6)

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Jesus frickin christ, man. Move on already. (-3)

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But given the circumstances known at the time (eg, the Wuhan Institute was carrying out risky research on coronaviruses, lab leaks are a known hazard and do occur, a thorough investigation on SARS-CoV-2's origin hadn't even began, etc) there was no basis to label a lab leak a "conspiracy". It was a completely legitimate hypothesis. (1)

That's true. The lab leak theory got unfairly associated with various bioengineering and biological weapon theories early in the pandemic - and many of those absolutely are conspiracy theories. As a result, many scientists wrongly attacked the entire premise of the lab leak theory.It still doesn't mean it was wrong to say there was no evidence to support a lab leak hypothesis, nor was it wrong to believe that zoonotic crossover was the most likely origin. And that's still largely true today. But the knee jerk reaction against any kind of lab leak hypothesis was wrong. (1)

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In May of 2020 there was no evidence for a laboratory origin. There was coincidence and supposition, but neither of those things are evidence.A lab leak is also not mutually exclusive with a natural origin. It's entirely possible for a completely natural virus being studied at WIV to have escaped containment. Many people seem to get in their head that lab leak must mean genetic manipulation of the virus, and that simply isn't true. While genetic manipulation of SARS-CoV-2 pretty much requires a lab leak origin, a natural virus could have spread in Wuhan either from a lab leak or from environmental crossover. (-2)

But given the circumstances known at the time (eg, the Wuhan Institute was carrying out risky research on coronaviruses, lab leaks are a known hazard and do occur, a thorough investigation on SARS-CoV-2's origin hadn't even began, etc) there was no basis to label a lab leak a "conspiracy". It was a completely legitimate hypothesis. (1)

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I think people would be well served by general skepticism towards the things academics are saying and writing. The institution has unfortunately been ideologically captured. Peer review, etc are simply ineffective mechanisms to generate truth.  (9)

Peer review is trash, just learned even if they do punish a doctor they will keep it under the 30 day mark so it's not reported. Also a doctor can kill you, lose their license in that state, move and still have their license. (-1)

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