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Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins by Glyptodon on Sunday January 26, 2025 @12:59AM (#42828062)
It only went the way it did because people were making "lab leak" synonymous with "genetically engineered."
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Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins by morepedantic on Sunday January 26, 2025 @02:54AM (#42828525)
I think you're confusing genetic engineering with the bioweapons research. The WIV did collect natural coronaviruses and genetically engineer them.
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