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Re:English Wikipedia drove out fringe editors over two decades by calibas on Monday November 06, 2023 @06:18PM (#38170627)
That something fundamentally wrong with that article. There's two separate "lab leak" theories, one that the virus was genetically engineered, and the other theory is that it came from bats, but was accidentally leaked from the lab.

The article merges the theories together, and then uses scientist's support of natural origin to dismiss both. Having it come from a wild bat doesn't suddenly rule out the lab that was doing research on wild bats.

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Re:English Wikipedia drove out fringe editors over two decades by mikewarot on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @06:05PM (#38184345)
They shouldn't have been doing BSL4 level experiments in a BSL2 lab, and it got out by accident.

The experiments shouldn't have happened in the first place... but that's another issue.

The leaks were inevitable and predictable, which is why it should have been at least a BSL4 lab, that's another issue.

No vast conspiracy, no fringe theories about bioweapons... just trying to get experiments done on the cheap.

If we funded science research properly, the work would have been far better organized and managed.

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