People are asking for a balanced discussion of natural vs lab covid origins. But I haven't seen such a balanced, scientific article. Closest to balanced for me is David Relman's PNAS opinion that we need to find the origins in the interest of every person.
pnas.org/content/117/47…
pnas.org/content/117/47…
What would a balanced origins discussion even look like? A panel or a team debate?
Regular peer review doesn't work for this kind of hot topic. Closed-door meetings among select scientists doesn't work. News orgs approaching their most trusted scientists also doesn't work.
Regular peer review doesn't work for this kind of hot topic. Closed-door meetings among select scientists doesn't work. News orgs approaching their most trusted scientists also doesn't work.
Both of the official investigations into SARS2 origins by the @WHO and @thelancet have a questionable choice of team membership.
How are we ever going to have a balanced discussion of the origins?
Is it ok to not know where this pandemic came from?
How are we ever going to have a balanced discussion of the origins?
Is it ok to not know where this pandemic came from?
In the absence of a platform to have a balanced origins discussion, we have popular stories on each extreme end.
Even people who started in the middle and just wanted lab origins to be considered eventually get pushed to one end or the other trying to defend a moderate stance.
Even people who started in the middle and just wanted lab origins to be considered eventually get pushed to one end or the other trying to defend a moderate stance.
The part that makes the least sense to me is fighting over who said what first. We are so so far away from knowing the origins.
The internet exists. If needed, we can go back and see who really said it first.
But if something is important, we should all say it again and again.
The internet exists. If needed, we can go back and see who really said it first.
But if something is important, we should all say it again and again.
Although @nicholsonbaker8's article is fantastic, there is not a Baker lab leak hypothesis vs a Proximal Origin natural hypothesis.
There is a lot in between. A lot of questions that need answering. No one needs to die on either hill, especially in a dearth of evidence.
There is a lot in between. A lot of questions that need answering. No one needs to die on either hill, especially in a dearth of evidence.
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