"David Relman, a microbiologist at Stanford University, says a lab leak was never the subject of a 'fair and dispassionate discussion of the facts as we know them.'"
Lab Leak: A Scientific Debate Mired in Politics — and Unresolved
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Lab Leak: A Scientific Debate Mired in Politics — and Unresolved
undark.org/2021/03/17/lab…
"Relman agrees that in the absence of conclusive evidence, the message on origins should be 'we don’t know.'..[H]e found himself increasingly disheartened by those who..had seized on a spillover scenario, despite 'an amazing absence of data.'"
"[L]ab-release dangers are growing as well. The risk increases in proportion with the number of labs handling bioweapons and potential pandemic pathogens (more than 1,500 globally in 2010)..many of them, like the Wuhan lab, located in urban areas close to international airports."
"The most dramatic expansion has occurred in China during the last four years—driven as an arms-race-style reaction to biodefense expansion in the US, Europe, and Japan."
"China opened two new BSL-4 facilities, in Wuhan and in Harbin, in the last four years..and has announced plans to establish a network of hundreds of new BSL-3 and BSL-4 labs."
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