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Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted by inciampati on Sunday June 11, 2023 @02:55AM (#36278911)
No, not all labs working on viruses do research on dangerous viruses. Bacteriophages for instance, are a deep research topic, and (aside from potential effects on our microbiome) are completely benign to humans. That's just one of many counterexamples.
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Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted by th0ma5 on Sunday June 11, 2023 @03:01AM (#36278938)
Hrmm sort of a minor correction, everything else they said is good.
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Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted by inciampati on Sunday June 11, 2023 @03:53AM (#36279229)
They prefaced the statement with "most importantly" so it seems they thought it was their key point.
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Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted by th0ma5 on Sunday June 11, 2023 @04:02AM (#36279274)
What secure labs don't work on dangerous viruses? I guess I now wonder about your correction heh.
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Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted by bryanlarsen on Sunday June 11, 2023 @04:56AM (#36279512)
Since you are playing "lets be pedantic", the OP didn't specify "dangerous to humans". Bacteriophages are dangerous to bacteria.
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Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted by asynchronous on Sunday June 11, 2023 @10:08AM (#36281518)
The original comment was ridiculous, the Wuhan lab does research on coronaviruses - what ended up leaking from the lab was a coronavirus. That IS compelling evidence. You can’t hand wave that away with “well a lot of labs do a lot of testing on dangerous viruses.”
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Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted by andsoitis on Sunday June 11, 2023 @10:53AM (#36281964)
> what ended up leaking from the lab was a coronavirus

Did a coronavirus leak from the lab?

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Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted by foldr on Sunday June 11, 2023 @11:13AM (#36282134)
These coincidences can happen. For example, Russian disinformation exploited the coincidental location of the Salisbury poisonings (near Porton Down).
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Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted by P_I_Staker on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @09:00AM (#36309628)
He's talking about the good researchers, I think. They're looking at dangerous viruses.
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