OK, no. That's not the evidence people are talking about, even now. That's the garbage that fed the conspiracy theory. Find me a reputable source who's flipped on the garbage. What you're finding is people changing their priors based on good evidence, not deciding to believe garbage.
Summary: whistleblower tries to flee China, is detained in Hong Kong, Bannon and Guo money help her out. She hastily publishes her “research” (evidence) without any peer review because of the urgency. The entire left media sphere jumps on her because of the Bannon link. Her Twitter is banned and FB and other “fact check” orgs brand her claims as indisputably false solely on political grounds. One such fact check has since been revoked.
She has just as much standing as anybody claiming natural origin of the virus but was de-platformed because she said the wrong thing which associated her with the wrong people.
NOW: other people are actually doing the research themselves and it appears that the only real explanation for how the virus evolved the features it has is via a gain of function process that would only ever really be used if you were trying to develop a bioweapon.
HN lefties are in denial and claim that we have “new evidence” when exactly zero facts have changed. Other people are just taking a more serious look at the data.. The media looks like fools. Twitter and FB yet again censored truth in pursuit of a narrative. It’s a huge mess.
At this point the best thing to do might just be to follow Yan’s twitter account. Her motives check out: why would somebody make an otherwise career-ending move (if they’re wrong) by coming forward with claims that covid was lab leaked if you weren’t absolutely sure of yourself? Of course that doesn't make her right, by virtue, but history seems to be taking care of that.
She was not a virologist. She is a Post-Doctoral Researcher Field in Medicine: """She earned a PhD in ophthalmology from Southern Medical University in Guangzhou,[2][3] and sources differ on whether beforehand she received an MD degree[2] or a master's degree in ophthalmology[3] from Xiangya Medical College of Central South University in China.[13] She was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Hong Kong.[14] """
She was not detained anywhere. Think about it, if she was detained, Trump and the gang will make it known to everyone 24 * 7. Her mother probably was harassed by netizens, that's very likely. And see how sloppy the media report can be in [2], she was not a virologist, but was labeled so by NewsWeek. I used to read NewsWeek everyday in my university's library when I was studying for GRE and applying for US PhD program. The quality was better then.
> She has just as much standing as anybody claiming natural origin of the virus but was de-platformed because she said the wrong thing which associated her with the wrong people.
She has as much standing as any non-expert... That's all I can conclude from [1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li-Meng_Yan [2] https://www.newsweek.com/chinese-virologist-mon-arrested-chi...
The Journal article that sourced actual intelligence sources pointing to an outbreak among lab researchers at exactly the right time to plausibly explain the pandemic is most of it.
Evidence (actual evidence, not the circumstantial nonsense being peddled about by partisans) convinces people. Isn't that what you want to happen?
But clearly it's NOT what you want to happen. You want everyone to come back grovelling admitting how you were clearly right about everything the whole time. But... you weren't. Evidence was poor then, and if not good now at least plausibly acceptable.
You need to be thanking those Journal reporters, who saved you from your own paranoia.