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

Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins by ahartmetz on Saturday January 25, 2025 @11:16PM (#42827660)

GoF pro: might help in some case, to the best of our knowledge never did. (Some scientists like their deadly toys!)

GoF contra: might cause a pandemic, kill millions, probably did.

So, yeah, I don't know, tough decision.

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Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins by llamaimperative on Sunday January 26, 2025 @11:29AM (#42831223)

All sorts of medicines are manufactured using GoF'd E. coli. We need a tighter definition of "bad" GoF.

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Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins by ahartmetz on Sunday January 26, 2025 @09:22PM (#42836698)

I guess research along the lines of "What if this microorganism was more dangerous (infectious, resistant, damaging) - well, let's try that!"

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