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Back up a bit. What the fuck is "meta-scientific"?

I'm using it to refer to applying the scientific method to the process of science itself.

That seemed to be an unnecessary label in the context of your post, especially since it’s also just a normal scientific hypothesis.

You are intellectually and scientifically dishonest by presenting the lab leak like this.

Take your own theory and argument for it. You could only stare at a honest list of for and against regarding the lab leak, and conclude that lab leak is meta-scientific.

When you call for evidence, remember the information blackouts and destruction of samples ordered by the Chinese. Chinese citizens and scientists were dissapeared for following the science and doing proper journalism. To conclude their legacy as meta-scientific is ugly. That is not my science, but maybe that is your job here...

Your comments have been breaking the site guidelines. We ban accounts that do that. Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here? That means no name-calling, no personal attacks, and generally avoiding the flamewar style.

Are you replying to the right comment string?

Metascientific means a scientific investigation into the practice of science. There is no value judgement there, it's a description of how the investigation is being conducted.

It’s like metadata. If metadata is data about data, metasci is science about science.

It could be that "Meta" the company is nothing about nothing?

It's a polite way of saying that it was nonsense.

But the comment seems to go on to say it's not nonsense.

It means pseudo-scientific bullshit

It’s literally a hypothesis. It’s in the name.

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