Split from Conflicts of interest in investigating the origins/causes of diseases.

[Alex_Krycek]

On 3/31/2021 at 7:18 PM, ScienceNostalgia101 said:

So it was a little cathartic to see the hashtag #Wuhan trending lately, and people not letting up on holding the CCP; whose previous lies about this disease have been exposed; to the utmost of skepticism. A recurring theme with this hashtag is the notion that COVID-19 escaped from a Chinese lab and that the WHO; an institution partly funded by China; has a vested interest in not going too severely against its government propaganda to say so.

Following Occam's razor, the Wuhan lab leak hypothesis is the most logical explanation for the origin of Covid 19 at this point.  More and more scientists are going on record in support of this hypothesis.  There was a great piece in Politico back in March about it.  The WHO will never be truly objective, due to political influence from China, and it seems somewhat of a taboo subject in the scientific community writ large (due in large part to the politicization of the hypothesis and other conflicts of interest).  It's entirely logical that a respiratory pathogen with this level of infectiousness might accidentally find its way out into the surrounding area.    

Edited April 12, 2021 by Alex_Krycek

[Prometheus]

2 hours ago, Alex_Krycek said:

Following Occam's razor, the Wuhan lab leak hypothesis is the most logical explanation for the origin of Covid 19 at this point.  More and more scientists are going on record in support of this hypothesis.  There was a great piece in Politico back in March about it.  The WHO will never be truly objective, due to political influence from China, and it seems somewhat of a taboo subject in the scientific community writ large (due in large part to the politicization of the hypothesis and other conflicts of interest).  It's entirely logical that a respiratory pathogen with this level of infectiousness might accidentally find its way out into the surrounding area.    

Pandemics are replete throughout human history - occam's razor in this context would be that this is another natural pandemic.

 

[Alex_Krycek]

13 minutes ago, Prometheus said:

Pandemics are replete throughout human history - occam's razor in this context would be that this is another natural pandemic.

 

Sure, if you choose to completely ignore the fact that the outbreak started only a few miles from a level 4 virology lab that specializes in "gain of function" testing for bat coronaviruses.  If you choose to completely ignore that fact then the "just another natural pandemic" argument sounds more plausible.

Edited April 12, 2021 by Alex_Krycek

[Prometheus]

No, you just take into account the numerous wet markets in Wuhan which bring together humans and various animals.

Then ask, what is the simpler explanation (since you invoked occam's razor) - that a virus mutated naturally or it was lab created. A natural evolution sounds simpler to me.

[swansont]

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This is a violation of rule 2.12. Conspiracy is not an argument in good faith.