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Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted by peteradio on Sunday June 11, 2023 @11:07AM (#36282077)
You can't in one comment complain about investigations using "made up priors" and then in another complain that we are investigating something which could actually provide a measured prior.
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Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted by th0ma5 on Sunday June 11, 2023 @12:59PM (#36283125)
Could! But hasn't... Otherwise yes good points. I don't see how they measure all the rest of the probabilities and the article seems to be designed to settle arguments among dumb people or something? It is not even remotely scientific.
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Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted by peteradio on Sunday June 11, 2023 @02:05PM (#36283889)
> I think the whole premise that arbitrary priors and dreaming up probabilities and then washing them all together isn't applicable to a unicorn type event.

Now I believe you said it. Maybe not exactly "made up priors" so pardon me for the misquote. But I'd be interested to see if you can make a distinction.

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