How I learned to stop worrying and love the lab-leak theory

Re:How I learned to stop worrying and love the lab-leak theory by tolbish on Monday May 17, 2021 @11:34PM (#27190996)

There is a noticeable trend here of gatekeepers crying foul when others decide to talk about this. They try to shame you into silence, claiming that you are caring about the wrong thing, as if you cannot pay attention to more than one issue simultaneously.

Whenever there is a trend of similar talking points on a hot topic it makes me wonder how much of that is influence from outside groups.

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Re:How I learned to stop worrying and love the lab-leak theory by dang on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @12:28AM (#27191260)

Please don't resort to sinister explanations without evidence, when a topic is plainly divisive. It's an extremely tempting but low-quality discussion move that the site guidelines explicitly ask everyone here to refrain from:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If there's specific reason to believe that comments here are somehow being manipulated, that's different and you should email [email protected] so we can look into it. (That's in the site guidelines as well.) But the overwhelming majority of the time, there's zero suggestion of any such thing, other than people disagreeing, which is evidence of nothing but that the topic is divisive.

I've posted hundreds if not thousands of explanations of this over many years at this point: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....

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Re:How I learned to stop worrying and love the lab-leak theory by loopz on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @12:24AM (#27191243)

Speculation about it might be detrimental. So it seems like a bad tradeoff unless one can find evidence one way or the other, and what constructively to do about it first.

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