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Re:The Lab Leak Hypothesis by himinlomax on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @05:18AM (#25644024)
The main point here is that the lab escape hypothesis has been hitherto dismissed out of hand when it ought not to be.

I agree that the natural zoonotic contamination hypothesis is more plausible to begin with, but since it has not been confirmed (as in: no natural reservoir has been identified), the less plausible but nonetheless not implausible lab escape hypothesis should still be on the table.

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Re:The Lab Leak Hypothesis by kasey_junk on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @07:14AM (#25644736)
The President of the United States is on record as saying it came from a lab.

I’m not sure how that translates to “dismissed out of hand”.

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Re:The Lab Leak Hypothesis by ahepp on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @04:03PM (#25651006)
Dismissed by the intelligentsia, like everything he says. Usually they are right to do so, but occasionally I think there is a touch of "orange man bad" syndrome.
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Re:The Lab Leak Hypothesis by api on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @08:57AM (#25645523)
I treat Trump's grunts like the output of a Markov chain random text generator and don't consider them official signifiers either for or against anything. He blathers and lies and then contradicts himself with different lies an hour later. He's a classic bullshitter.
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Re:The Lab Leak Hypothesis by germinalphrase on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @08:02AM (#25645036)
The President says a lot of things...
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