Thread by @Ayjchan

To the scientists saying that the lab leak hypothesis has changed over the past year from manmade to lab escape…

The hypothesis didn’t change.

Your narrative did.

https://twitter.com/ayjchan/status/1373780412489695232

Please see a few of the receipts in this thread below. I have even more if you need a refresher.

https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1401012880527572993

January of this year in @NatureMedicine
“outright ridiculous conspiracy theories that spread faster than the virus itself: SARS-CoV-2 was the result of a laboratory accident”

nature.com/articles/s4159…

To clarify, @angie_rasmussen said it's a conspiracy theory if SARS2 came from a lab accident or was engineered, AND was concealed to hide incompetence or an international conspiracy.

Is this a fair characterization of what you wrote in @NatureMedicine?

https://twitter.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1410677927583309825

@angie_rasmussen @NatureMedicine I don't think this is right. If I spilled something in the lab and my colleagues kept it secret instead of broadcasting to the institute or government, have we all suddenly participated in a conspiracy?

If a natural host had been found but covered up, does that mean this natural spillover hypothesis is a conspiracy theory?

Would @NatureMedicine publish my opinion that there are outright ridiculous conspiracy theories like natural spillover concealed to hide incompetence?

I think it makes much more logical sense and is more productive to simply refer to these situations as cover-ups rather than conspiracies.

This helps everyone to understand what you mean exactly.

Would all the experts cited in this thread so far like to publicly confirm that what they meant by "conspiracy theory" was that there is a hypothesis that the Chinese government might have covered up a lab leak?

To give another example, if a famous scientist agrees with his colleagues that it would be best if they delete old tweets to conceal stupendous incompetence... is that a conspiracy?

Is this an outright ridiculous conspiracy theory then?

Took the whole quote this time.
factcheck.org/2021/06/sciche…

Not to mention, the Huanan seafood market had 10,000 visitors a day and no one, not even the 2 witnesses provided to WHO-recruited international experts told them about live wild mammals at the seafood market.

Is this a conspiracy of epic proportions?

Page 123 of the Annexes of the China-WHO report. That's right. I read the whole damned thing.