Covid-19 origins: plain speaking is overdue(thelancet.com)
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Covid-19 origins: plain speaking is overdue
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(24)00206-4/fulltext
4 comments
This piece leverages a very arrogant and dismissive tone and does not cast the journal that it represents in a very positive light.
Regardless of your point of view on this topic, this piece fails to highlight the implicit bias that has been hiding in plain sight since the pandemic started. A lab leak would likely result in decreased funding for researchers in this field and definitely produce far more rules and regulations governing allowable research (or simply stronger enforcement of existing rules). Thus, "experts" who do not want increased regulation and/or decreased potential funding categorically deny the possibility that SARS-CoV2 was any type of lab leak.
Regardless of your point of view on this topic, this piece fails to highlight the implicit bias that has been hiding in plain sight since the pandemic started. A lab leak would likely result in decreased funding for researchers in this field and definitely produce far more rules and regulations governing allowable research (or simply stronger enforcement of existing rules). Thus, "experts" who do not want increased regulation and/or decreased potential funding categorically deny the possibility that SARS-CoV2 was any type of lab leak.
Junk. This opinion piece offers no proof for its assertion, makes no reference to any research and adds nothing of value to the debate.