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I'm not impressed with this article, which is long on appeals to authority and short on actual analysis and facts.

I recommend this one: https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-peop...

And this one: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-...

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The scientific approach is to form hypotheses, and then seek facts that will allow us to rule on them. But the character of the epidemic has been a battle of wills between a priesthood of experts and their reactionaries.

The sad thing is that I am sure there are many scientists who cleave to those ideals. But it seems academia is no more immune to tribal groupthink than the rest of us, and it's usually a bad career move to fight the tide.

I have to agree. thebulletin article lays out the evidence pretty clearly unlike this one.

> I'm not impressed with this article

"I don't like those facts, I like these facts."

Rather “This lacks facts, read other articles with facts.”

Is there some shibboleth I can say to convince you that I am evaluating these articles on the strength of their arguments, rather than their conformance to a preselected conclusion? Or is the assumption of bad faith simply my doom?

I recommend the official who report and also the YouTube channel / podcast this week in virology.

As the first link details, the "official WHO report" is marred by some pretty serious undeclared conflicts of interest.

The podcast I mentioned has interviews with The Who people and episodes that walk thru even the wildest conspiracies. All done by actual virologists.

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