Re:Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, U.S. Ag...
by zamnos on Monday February 27, 2023 @04:06PM
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Yikes, what's your definition for "shitty theory" then? Something that's "not reliable enough or is too fragmented to make a more definitive analytic judgment or that there is not enough information available to draw a more robust conclusion" sounds pretty shitty to me. Literal shit lets you draw more conclusions about the defecator than that!
Re:Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, U.S. Ag...
by PathOfEclipse on Monday February 27, 2023 @05:36PM
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What do you think a theory is? A theory is by definition unproven. With enough evidence, it becomes proven and therefore no longer a theory. Then there's the grey area in between, where a theory seems plausible but there's not enough evidence to be conclusive about it.
A "shitty" theory is one which completely lacks evidence supporting it and/or has far more evidence that contradicts it. The covid lab leak theory is not "shitty" by either metric.
Re:Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, U.S. Ag...
by igouy on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @03:05PM
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I was surprised to find, at CNN, of all places, something that actually sounds credible: "https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/26/politics/covid-lab-leak-wuhan..."
"A low confidence assessment generally means that the information obtained is not reliable enough or is too fragmented to make a more definitive analytic judgment or that there is not enough information available to draw a more robust conclusion."
That's a far cry from "shitty theory".