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Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins by sleeplessworld on Saturday January 25, 2025 @11:49PM (#42827775)
This seems to be one of the most dangerous propositions that I have ever heard of. Given human history, human psychology, human error, politics etc.

What am I missing here? That biolabs are the only human made thing that can be made absolutely 100% secure?

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Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins by Izkata on Sunday January 26, 2025 @01:17AM (#42828134)
As far as I know you're not missing anything and this is why gain-of-function research was banned in the US for a while. EcoHealth Alliance outsourced it to China in the mid-2010s because of the ban, so technically none of it was happening in the US.
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