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Re:Coronavirus: Was US money used to fund risky research in ... by Leparamour on Friday July 23, 2021 @12:53PM (#27932844)
To me it sounds like damage control lawyer speak: "Only admit what you can't deny any longer".

None of this is new information, only that you were called a 'conspiracy theorist' for bringing these up until now and at the risk of being ostracized, just like with the 'lab-origin' theory. Doesn't exactly inspire trust in BBC reporting when journalists could have asked these exact same questions 6 months or more ago, unless the reporting was suppressed on purpose.

You have to wonder what else will be admitted as true and if they will throw Dr. Fauci under the bus eventually.

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Re:Coronavirus: Was US money used to fund risky research in ... by alimw on Friday July 23, 2021 @01:27PM (#27933326)
On such a technical question journalists can only report on what they hear from scientific sources, and when those sources are new to them they'll have to decide on the fly how much trust to put in them.
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