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Nah dude, pure coincidenceย (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)
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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)
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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.ย (9)
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I have empathy for both sides on this one, the government acted to silence opposition and they should be taken to task for being wrong, but also the "trust the science XD" meme has led to chuds simply declaring anything they don't like the implications of to be biased and refusing to vaccinate their kid for measles. The average person is a moron who probably should blindly trust the corrupt experts because they're too stupid to do otherwise
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Government opted to handle the situation with lies and tyranny. If the measles come back and kill us all cause people can no longer trust the institutions, its just us reaping what we've sown by allowing the corruption to continue
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Does it actually mean that or does it mean there are lots of people who will believe the earth is 6000 years old because to do otherwise would contradict what they want to believe
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Yeah bro, all those PhDs in 1980s Romania who wrote books on "Scientific" socialism are expects that should be listened to. Don't mind or notice the fact that the president's dumbshit yokel wife declared herself the expert of science in the country, don't notice that she can't even pronounce C02 properly and can barely read or write. Let's totally listen to her theories about mixing all the donated blood together to create a better Romanian people, it won't spread AIDS, trust the experts.
Nobody remembers that the commieshit societies had this exact sort of "trust the science" going on, and after it collapsed all those losers writing wordswordswords about communist theory were pumping gas.
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