I called for more research on Covid ‘lab leak theory.’ Here’s what I found out

This has gotta be one of the dumbest, most self-negating arguments I’ve seen so far. ‘I asked Nature to request that Shi publish several SARS-related coronavirus sequences that had been reported in the journal. Within days, she provided them. The result: no smoking gun; they were all much more distantly related to SARS-CoV-2 than RaTG13.’ Let me get this straight - you are asking a scientist with the most to lose from this potential debacle to hand over evidence of her own central involvement and then using that to refute the lab leak? I’m just boggled by how naive some of these supposedly intelligent scientists are. If you are going to prove or disprove the lab leak hypothesis you cannot rely on evidence provided by the lab because the lab and the government that runs it have a massive conflict of interest with respect to this issue. They may well be telling the truth, but you have to find that out through evidence that wasn’t provided to you by them. Duh. It’s like asking a suspect to hand over the murder weapon. Don’t be surprised when what they give you implicates someone else.

> Recent reports that Department of Energy and FBI officials think the COVID-19 pandemic originated with a so-called lab leak

Why was the Department of Energy investigating the origin of a virus at all?

If the CCP favors zoonotic origin theory more than the lab leak theory, they will release the data that supports the former. I’m not sure how much anyone can trust the data.

It's funny to see all the gaslighting now that the story can't be censored any longer.

My concern isn't about China though, I expected China to lie. We need to find out why our own government (and so much of our Technocracy) was complicit in the cover up stories and mass censorship.