The Lab-Leak Debate Just Got Even Messier

I knew even before I opened this thread up in my rss reader that it would be flagged (I don’t see a flagged indicator until I open it). The irony is that seeing the almost immediate flagging of lab leak content on here makes me lean even further into the plausibility of the lab leak theory. Simply because of the active censorship campaigns against it.

There is nothing in this article that even rises to the level of misinformation. Flagging is an overt attempt to simply hide the eyeballs from it.

"Vaughn Cooper, who studies pathogen evolution at the University of Pittsburgh, told us that he hasn’t changed his view that SARS-CoV-2 is extremely unlikely to have been created in a lab—but the lack of candor is “really concerning.” The DARPA proposal doesn’t “mean that much for our understanding of the origins of the pandemic,” he said, “but it does diminish the trustworthiness of the research groups involved.”"

This. Documents will get out. Why hide them and feed the conspiracy theorists?

I don't know about everyone else, but where I live (Florida), the same people who preach that COVID was an intentional, weaponized lab leak also argue that it's a hoax, less dangerous to the common flu.

It makes my head hurt.

There should be a dashboard somewhere on HN, updated daily, that clearly indicates which topics are off limits and which opinions are off limits within the permitted topics of discussion.