• Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Are we still doing Wuhan Lab Leak Theory? Wasn’t that debunked ages ago

    There was an attempt at debunking the lab leak theory early on with a nature article saying we do not believe any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible. Then there was a rejected DARPA research proposal detailing exactly how the laboratory-based scenario is possible.

    Lab origin has not been proven but there is no natural zoonotic path to Wuhan. Lab encouraged gain of function with in species reproduction seems most likely.

    Half the US intelligence agencies support the lab origin theory.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      14 minutes ago

      there is no natural zoonotic path to Wuhan

      How do you get from “we don’t think the disease naturally originated in Wuhan” to “China engineered a virus, released it in their own city, and then used that as a vector for malicious infection of the rest of the world”?

      Half the US intelligence agencies support the lab origin theory.

      They also insisted Iraq had nuclear weapons.