CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins

Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins by gigatree on Saturday January 25, 2025 @07:11PM (#42826335)

You might be surprised how many things labeled conspiracy theories have strong evidence, incentives, etc. but get scoffed at as kooky impossibilities nonetheless - like the lab leak theory.

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Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins by gtgvdfc on Saturday January 25, 2025 @11:29PM (#42827707)

Out how many conspiracy theories end up being right.

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Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins by indoordin0saur on Monday January 27, 2025 @11:28AM (#42842800)

I think when it comes to conspiracy theories the two heuristics to use are:

1.) Do they have an incentive to conspire?

2.) Do they have the ability to conspire?

Where both are true I think conspiracies exist every where, often to such an extent it just gets labelled as corruption rather than conspiracy.

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