Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Here's How Scientists Know Coronavirus Wasn't Made in a Lab

 

In other words ...

 

"Look, it's just an interesting theory that's worth examining."

Scientists in March: We agree, so we examined it. It's just not true.

Scientists in May: Still not true.

Scientists in August: Still not true.

Scientists in November: Still not true.

Scientists in January: Still not true.

Some random author: Hey, maybe it's true though? Shouldn't we at least consider it?

Basically this energy:

 

Somewhere there is the most byzantine description of an atlatl ever formulated in any language. It is being kept under lock and key at a large university in the Southeastern United States in an effort to prevent aneurysms beyond the initial class who heard it during an exercise in delivering research papers that went horribly awry. The same undergraduate's description of Aztec sun rituals, which were liberally punctuated with exclamations of, "Wait! That's not even the rilly cool part!" crawled out of the room and was last seen slipping into a storm grate.

The group leader's hapless explanation that she was trying to not hurt feelings during the planning of their presentation day led to counseling sessions in the dean's office where concepts about "breaking a few eggs" and "this is not the department to encourage damned hippies" were thrown around. The group leader then transferred to a kinder, gentler program in another state, where she was accused of making a freshman cry during her first week of matriculation. Or so I've heard.

 

Yes, I do know.

Because I read things like this:

The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2

If you can read that and still "not know," then you are part of the problem.

 

I'm not arguing the science.

I'm curious about the journalism, and how New York fact-checked the piece.

 

It's a really interesting story. It addresses all that, even cites the scores of experts.

 

“Playing with it in a lab” is just trying to say “human engineered” in a different way and hoping no one notices

 

So you're not saying it's man made but instead you're saying it was ... man made? Ok that's an oversimplification of your point, but the reality is the best scientific evidence says it wasn't the result of a lab creation or accident. Telling me we don't know the origins doesn't prove it came from a lab. Because we don't know the origins doesn't mean eliminated possibilities are valid. It means we no longer have to look there. If I'm looking for my keys, I'll check my pocket and find they are not there. There's no more reason to check my pocket looking for my keys because I don't know where they are. I know where they are not. It tells me I need to look somewhere else. Eliminating a lab accident means science can figure resources elsewhere.

This writer "throwing out possibilities" is irresponsible when we know it isn't true. And it perpetuates a nefarious theory that China is either by overt action or by negligence brought down the west. And that is going to breathe life into whatever hate of the Chinese that will continue.

 

Take a few minutes to read it.

It's an interesting piece.