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Re:Scientists who say the lab-leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2... by phyalow on Friday April 09, 2021 @05:27PM (#26756413)
Firstly it is "Dunning-Kruger". Secondly you are engaging in an argument from "authority" without evidence which is often fallacious and always disingenuous.
Re:Scientists who say the lab-leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2... by jeduehr on Friday April 09, 2021 @05:40PM (#26756553)
I'm typing on a phone keyboard so forgive my typo.

And I linked to a literal mountain of evidence describing both my credentials on this topic and then an extremely detailed and heavily sourced set of arguments.

I'm not talking out of my ass, I'm sorry it sounds that way. After you have several hundred of these discussions and they keep popping up with zero new evidence, it tends to color your attitude.

Please accept my apologies

Re:Scientists who say the lab-leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2... by mocmoc on Friday April 09, 2021 @08:15PM (#26757736)
It’s a lost battle, I understand that your colleges just don’t want to even discuss. Thanks for all then info you posted
Re:Scientists who say the lab-leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2... by moritonal on Saturday April 10, 2021 @04:08AM (#26759839)
Pointing out spelling mistakes is a fallacy in the sense of attacking the person rather than the argument (as in, you know what they meant to say, but wanted to make them look silly), and they did post a literal megathread of evidence which (because it wasn't summarised for you) you decided to discount.
Re:Scientists who say the lab-leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2... by phyalow on Saturday April 10, 2021 @04:36AM (#26759955)
I am sure you are familiar with the concept involved with Dunning-Kruger, misspelling it when trying to make a point, makes said point somewhat hard to take seriously.

I have pursued most of what OP posted on reddit, I am not qualified to judge the finer points, but it doesn't mesh up with what I have seen presented by other independent expert sources or common sense. So I discounted it for that reason not the one you gave.

Re:Scientists who say the lab-leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2... by jeduehr on Saturday April 10, 2021 @08:02AM (#26760868)
Here are a lot of other experts (and surveys of experts) who agree the lab leak is less likely: https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/gk6y95/covid19_did...