Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted
by th0ma5 on Sunday June 11, 2023 @01:10PM
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That's a bold thing to say in a non scientific paper with no sources except they aren't asserting anything like that as a provable fact, though.
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Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted
by denton-scratch on Sunday June 11, 2023 @02:36PM
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The NYT is a reputable organ, known for checking it's sources. Unlike Wikipedia, newspapers don't generally cite their sources; but if a reliable source states something like that as fact, they've probably checked. You're right: they haven't said they can prove it.
[Of course, it could be propaganda, government or otherwise; or it could be a damned lie concocted by the reporter or editor. They've said they have sources, they haven't named them, so it's not unreasonable to suppose they have sources that don't want to be named.]