im going to guess you dont hold a phd from a teir 1 university.
just because it wasnt engineered doesn't mean it didnt escape from a lab accidently. You can train viruses pretty quickly in a controlled laboratory setting to pick up traits. That is not to say that certain aspects of the virus didnt occur naturally.
It's not an extraordinary claim. [nymag.com] Given the coincidences and destruction of evidence, the claim that it didn't come from one of the two labs is the extraordinary claim. Even without all the work in that article, the claim would be a very ordinary.
It could still be wrong, but it's not extraordinary. An ordinary claim doesn't become extraordinary because it's embarrassing to science has negative political implications for powerful people.
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'No Evidence' says Xi (Score:2, Insightful)
No evidence at all, says Xi, vigorously brushing his hands together while standing on a particularly lumpy rug.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proofs (a man who DID hold a PhD from a tier 1 University).
You offer a claim but back it up only with whatiffery. Won't pass the Sagan Test.
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It's not an extraordinary claim. [nymag.com] Given the coincidences and destruction of evidence, the claim that it didn't come from one of the two labs is the extraordinary claim. Even without all the work in that article, the claim would be a very ordinary.
It could still be wrong, but it's not extraordinary. An ordinary claim doesn't become extraordinary because it's embarrassing to science has negative political implications for powerful people.