Shi Zhengli, the virologist at centre of COVID lab-leak theory, reveals coronavirus sequences from Wuhan institute.
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20241208004114/https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03982-2
SpinScore: https://spinscore.io/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.com%2Farticles%2Fd41586-024-03982-2
Yea I remember the “China Virus” remarks a certain felon made.
There was a lot of anti-Asian hatred.
My ancestry is Chinese, I’m a US Citizen living in the US.
And the felon is gonna be president again…
😖
People in US would rather have a felon, rapist, and a geriatric old man as a president than a woman leading the way.
says a lot about the country as a whole.
MLK Jr’s white moderate is far more frustrating than any white supremacist. Give “Letter from Birmingham Jail” a read.
A lady commiting genocide
It’s too late. The Republicans already have their story, inconvenient facts don’t matter. The people who care about its real origins aren’t the ones making laws.
Republicans? A huge number of Democrats believe this shit too!
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Pretty sure the dominant opinion for Republicans is that COVID is a hoax.
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Wuhan lab leak conspiracies are mainstream. 52 percent believe the virus came out of a lab, including 59 percent of Republicans and 52 percent of Democrats, while 28 percent said it was from an infected animal.
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What those numbers tell me is the majority of democrats are just as stupid and chauvinist as Republicans.
The problem is bipartisan. We were fed anti-China propaganda by our media and government; this is the result.
Well they are. Even Fauci started backtracking on the virus having animal origins.
So every other instance of “we investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing” is to be called into question, but we just gonna accept this because?
The latest analysis, which has not been peer reviewed, includes data from the whole genomes of 56 new betacoronaviruses, the broad group to which SARS-CoV-2 belongs, as well as some partial sequences. All the viruses were collected between 2004 and 2021.
Still a developing story, so it’s not conclusion i guess.
Even if it was peer reviewed there’s no means to ensure the input is meritable. The sample set was determined by governance. The implied conclusions were predetermined.
Part of the point of the peer review process is to check for that. This kind of satay would be very hard to fake well enough to pass the scrutiny of a bunch of skeptical scientists. And if it passes that any scientist will be able to do the same. Being able to force an other scientist to retract a Nature paper would be a high prize for any academic.
Part of the point of the peer review process is to check for that.
LMFAO. It’s authoritarian China.
It’s Nature. One of the most respected science journals on the planet.
It’s China, who’s authoritarian governance controls the dataset.
The fucking paper even says so itself in the abstract, lmao.
Why are we still doing this?
Because Donald Trump is about to start slinging shit from the highest office in the land again
Was he ever interested in facts?
Facts do not matter to bullies, just tell him he is fat when you get the chance and go on.
I mean, this is the time to investigate the standards of containment practices in viral research labs and start pointing fingers if they need to be pointed.
NOT when it was time to try to discredit the idea of vaccines.
Because libs agree with Trump that China bad, so it’s important to fight that still, especially as Trump gives them the excuse to rapidly and ridiculously increase their racist policies.
… anymore …
