Ryujin
Legend
Not if you employ the Scientific Method and questions aren't proof. The more wild the claim, the more need for rigorous investigation.
D&D and the rising pandemic
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Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
Science doesn't assume an answer the way a default does. By all means, question and test both possibilities.
Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
Lab leak theory, once 'political dynamite,' gains credibility in new study
The release of a scientific paper that was long in finding a publisher has given greater credibility to a theory that until recently was taboo: that the coronavirus could have emerged from a laboratory.
I have had to explain to people that you wouldn’t release an infectious bioweapon into the wild- even on a test run- until you had some kind of antidote/treatment/vaccine. Not just because of mutation, but because bioweapons cannot easily be targeted. Once you have one person sick, it’s free to spread anywhere its combination of attributes will let it. IOW, it’s too random to be safely deployed.
The response I got was something along the lines of the Chinese have too many people to care.
While it’s true, the current regime is cavalier about the value of human life, they’re not complete idiots. They understand a weaponized contagion could affect people they don’t want dying. (Like themselves.)
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Thomas Shey
Legend
Yeah, for the most part, bioweapons are not only evil, but dumb. Anything that spreads easily is also too damn hard to control.
Imaculata
Hero
Lab leak theory, once 'political dynamite,' gains credibility in new study
The release of a scientific paper that was long in finding a publisher has given greater credibility to a theory that until recently was taboo: that the coronavirus could have emerged from a laboratory.news.yahoo.com
First of all... Yahoo News? Really?
But second, they still don't provide any evidence to link the outbreak of Corona To a lab.
Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
You think that changes anything?
The science involved in that study shows that it is unlikely to have come from nature. But hey, if you want to ignore science because Yahoo and because no direct link to lab, go for it.
Imaculata
Hero
But that is not enough. You actually need to show evidence that the virus-from-a-lab hypothesis is true. That which is proposed without evidence, can be disregarded without evidence. Just because you've shown other roots of the virus to be unlikely, does not mean that you've provided evidence for what remains. This is also often referred to as the Sherlock Holmes fallacy.
AnotherGuy
Hero
I didn't start anything.
A comment was made as if the position was irrefutable and that Jon Stewart was far left field. My comments merely illustrated that a lab-designed virus was plausible given all the circumstantial evidence available.
I managed to find these articles relating to the Australian study of 2020 I was referring to
Australian researchers see virus design manipulation
A forthcoming Australian scientific study concludes that the coronavirus causing the global pandemic contains unique properties suggesting it was manipulated in a Chinese laboratory and was not the result of a natural occurrence.
www.washingtontimes.com
Coronavirus may have been a ‘cell-culture experiment’ gone wrong
EXCLUSIVE: The coronavirus that has become a world-wide pandemic may have been created in “cell-culture experiment” in a laboratory, according to prominent scientists who have conducted ground-breaking research into the origins of the virus. Flinders University Professor Nikolai Petrovsky’s...
www.skynews.com.au
I distinctly remember there were 2 others I saw last year - I cannot recall if they were British, French or Finnish that came to similar conclusions. Sadly I do not have the time to battle against google's algorithms to find them.
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Zardnaar
Legend
I didn't start anything.
A comment was made as if the position was irrefutable and that Jon Stewart was far left field. My comments merely illustrated that a lab-designed virus was plausible given all the circumstantial evidence available.
I managed to find this article relating to the Australian study of 2020
Australian researchers see virus design manipulation
A forthcoming Australian scientific study concludes that the coronavirus causing the global pandemic contains unique properties suggesting it was manipulated in a Chinese laboratory and was not the result of a natural occurrence.
I distinctly remember there were 2 others I saw last year - I cannot recall if they were British, French or Finish that came to similar conclusions.
Still doesn't prove anything though.
We just don't know so can't rule out or confirm anything and Best China's government is obscuring everything for that reason.
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