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Re:Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed by rssoconnor on Monday March 22, 2021 @08:47PM (#26549540)
That's not the correct calculation because you've selected the research lab hypothesis post-facto. The correct calculation is to roll a dice representing all the locations of possible human bat interactions and see how many of those land next to some landmark that you can form some sort of conspiracy about.
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Re:Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed by mensetmanusman on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @09:45PM (#26562589)
You may be misunderstanding expert opinion in prior elicitation. Many labs in the last century have had lab leaks. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incide...
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Re:Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed by bgandrew on Monday March 22, 2021 @09:24PM (#26549839)
And if you add all the sane hypotheses to the equation, how many would that be? 2?
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Re:Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed by rssoconnor on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @10:41AM (#26555606)
The only thing that evolves faster than this virus are the conspiracy theory memes[1] that the internet collectively weaves from circumstantial evidence where more and more compelling narratives become more and more widely shared. I'd wager that 100% of pandemics, regardless of origin, will have some compelling conspiracy attached to them. Compelling conspiracy theories is what the internet manufactures, particularly in the absence of direct evidence of anything.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme

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Re:Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed by kube-system on Monday March 22, 2021 @10:12PM (#26550195)
How many wet markets are in a city of 11 million people?
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