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Re:English Wikipedia drove out fringe editors over two decades by ashildr on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @01:53AM (#38173962)
> we know for a fact, thanks to many leaks, that scientists believed lableak was possible and even likely, that they were pressured from "on high" to say otherwise

Do we know that for a fact?

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Re:English Wikipedia drove out fringe editors over two decades by nvm0n2 on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @04:00AM (#38174699)
You can read authenticated Slack channel transcripts where they say exactly that, so yes. The room was even called #project-wuhan_engineering
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Re:English Wikipedia drove out fringe editors over two decades by ckoerner on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @01:39PM (#38180937)
[[citation needed]] :p
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Re:English Wikipedia drove out fringe editors over two decades by nvm0n2 on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @05:10PM (#38183695)
You can just search for it, you know.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/secret-messages-behind-lab-l...

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