BackInTex wrote: ↑Thu Jun 17, 2021 2:52 pm
Apparently 18 scientists published a letter in the journal Science last month calling for a more in-depth investigation into the virus’s origin that takes into account theories about both natural occurrence and laboratory spillovers. The letter helped kick-start a new round of calls to investigate the “lab leak hypothesis,” including demands from President Joe Biden and several leading scientists.
Nothing has changed other than the person sitting in the White House.
The report noted that numerous experts in the field have said that little-to-no evidence has emerged over the last year or so and that the only thing that has changed is the “context and circumstances” around the debate of the pandemic’s origins.
A scientist that signed onto a letter recently backing a probe in the possibility that the coronavirus pandemic originated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology admitted in an interview this week that she and other scientists did not come forward sooner to back the possibility that the pandemic originated in a lab because they did not want “to be associated with Trump.”
As I've said before, Trump could have developed the cure for cancer and we'd have more deaths from cancer because some (many of them here) would rather innocent people die than admit Trump was correct, on anything.
As I said when Spock propounded this "theory," before Trump and his inner circle tried to bring it up, what would have been done differently, if we knew it to be true? It is possible. It may never be conclusively proven or disproven, given the natural malice and secrecy of the Chinese government. Coincidentally, the best chance we would have had for knowing anything about whether the lab was playing fast and loose with safety guidelines, the watchdog we had placed in China specifically to avoid situations like these, was removed by Trump.
It's also worth noting that Trump, Pompeo, and others who promoted the lab leak theory, almost immediately backed off of it, and by the end of that week, were pretending no one ever said anything about it.
BTW, for anyone who's interested, the full passage of Jefferson's letter that BiT is using for his signature line is
here. I found the context fairly amusing.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. -- Richard Feynman
