Is it better to be cooking up exotic chimeric SARS viruses in North Carolina? As I said, the conspiracy isn’t about COVID per se, it’s about protecting the mad-science-industrial complex from public scrutiny.
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That’s debatable, but when you’re using a not accepted NC grant as evidence that a lab in china created SARS it means you’re using shit evidence.
The Atlantic covered the research proposal very well in an article published last week. And yeah, it’s not that it provides any evidence Covid was engineered, it’s about the reckless behavior of the people doing the research.
But it’s cool the same people are in here reflexively shouting down everything without bothering to read any of it.
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Can you expand on why a grant that was rejected is evidence of reckless behavior?
Yes. It’s in the link to the story you won’t read.
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Literally read that story already because I found it looking up things on the other link. You state your opinion, and I would like more explanation. Seems reasonable.
The article’s reasoning is more than a little flimsy. It acknowledges the paper is nothing, then alludes how to it hurts credibility somehow because it required a FOIA or something? It’s not particularly clear.
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The FOIA request relates to a different hybrid coronavirus research proposal, which was funded.
We have some very stable geniuses on the case!
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1442125566321233920
https://twitter.com/GReschenthaler/status/1441221447528030209
https://twitter.com/jimgeraghty/status/1442499659897913344
https://twitter.com/RedState/status/1442598068587614209
https://twitter.com/HeatherChilders/status/1442333319681642498
https://twitter.com/Liz_Wheeler/status/1440689290770411538
https://twitter.com/RepGallagher/status/1441088973565091849
https://twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1441425739514011648
https://twitter.com/JamieMetzl/status/1439946763796992000
https://twitter.com/JudicialWatch/status/1442308009573568512
https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1442444928500469774
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In related news:
Closest known relatives of virus behind COVID-19 found in Laos
Particularly concerning is that the new viruses contain receptor binding domains that are almost identical to that of SARS-CoV-2, and can therefore infect human cells. The receptor binding domain allows SARS-CoV-2 to attach to a receptor called ACE2 on the surface of human cells to enter them.
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The idea that there’s this apparently massive natural reservoir of pathogens is way scarier than a lab designing a virus, at least to me. Feels like we’d have more control over the latter.
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Canada land had a virologist on to say the woman they interviewed a couple weeks ago on the lab leak theory was utter bs.
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I knew it:
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Oh man please let this drive down the price of jumbos.
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Haven’t read this yet, but it’s getting play on NYT and WSJ so it should be discussed.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm4454
Cliffs are that they argue for animal source crossing over in wuhan market according to the NYT. Details are pretty exhaustive from a quick glance. Will look at it after some coffee tomorrow.
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With cleaning solution and a micro fiber cloth.
There is no new information in this article. It’s getting play because “guy says a thing” is an easy story lazy reporters can use to write clickbait headlines.
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Publication in science is “guy says a thing”?
Come on now.
Unfortunately, no live mammal collected at Huanan Market or any other live-animal market in Wuhan has been screened for SARS-CoV-2–related viruses ( 1 ), and Huanan Market was closed and disinfected on 1 January 2020.
Damn, what an unfortunate turn of events that does not seem at all unusual.
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