Thread by @TheSeeker268

Rant: Why lab leak is not a conspiracy, and how it's being used to shutdown discussion about a possible lab-origin for #SARSCoV2

#originsofSARSCOV2

Here's a good case-study on why calling something a 'conspiracy' without analysing the facts or even waiting for the facts to emerge, can be misleading at best and deceitful at worse

https://twitter.com/emmecola/status/1329853123188445188?s=20

Dismissing lab origin as a 'conspiracy' is just an attempt not to respond to facts, or to exclude possible theories without a sufficient basis to do so.

So can we do away with this label until things get settled?

Understanding the origin of SARS-CoV-2 is a valid scientific question, and by its nature, scientific analysis must allow for every possibility.

Moreover, there are other factors to consider besides just the scientific possibilities.

Many of the issues related to Covid-19 are of course exclusively scientific in nature, but origin is not, it is also forensic in nature, and the methodology of forensic analysis is different from scientific analysis.

As Rumsfeld noted, "there are known knowns, known unknowns, unknown unknowns" and they must me factored in.

Consider the discovery of the theses that linked the Wuhan labs to the 2012 mineshaft deaths investigation in Mojiang. Without the discovery we might have never known the full story behind RaTG13 and other similar BatCoVs in WIV.

They avoided referencing the miner's incident despite its obvious resemblance to COVID-19 symptoms, made contradictory statements and flip-flops on a number of issue.

https://twitter.com/FrontPubHealth/status/1318748475475963906?s=20

There is no smoke without fire. If we hadn't had a regime which started disappearing scientists & journalists raising the alarm, destroyed samples, and meticulously obfuscated or erased data...

..and ofcourse the unlikely coincidence of the virus appearing right next to the lab (and not randomly somewhere else in China) maybe people would be inclined to listen to the official version.

And there's really isn't any need for a conspiracy to explain this. Nobody's above being human, and things go wrong. It has happened before, and it may happen again if lessons aren't learnt.

Besides, I am yet to see a compelling explanation ruling out lab as the origin.

But clearly, some people have a vested interest in shutting down this debate, before it is clear what happened.

https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1329446186550489090?s=20

A good scientist wouldn't rule out the possibility without a valid reason, especially if the parsimonious explanation matches the circumstantial evidence.

Covid-19 is perhaps the biggest global event for generations, and we need to understand its origins, but its interesting how we have been misled by 'experts' on its potential to have come from a lab.

There is still no proof yet that a lab caused this pandemic, but to investigate the lab is vital.

This pandemic brought incredible global damage and cost to human lives. If it emerged from a lab, there are critical lessons to be learnt.

Science is science, facts are facts, and in search for truths all facts must be considered

And science, just like democracy, requires full information & open discourse.

Also, it is important for scientists to clearly explain their conclusions and their support for them. This impacts an issue of global public concern.

They shouldn't communicate certainty, when they aren't yet certain.

Anyway, instead of assessing the available facts, if you keep saying that's it's a 'conspiracy' and say it enough times, at least you can convince yourself. /End