Thread by @PhilippMarkolin

#lableak
This⬇️is a deliberate lie and toxic garbage.

Scientists are not 'ignoring the possibility of a lab leak' for fucks sake. And you know this MJ, given that I don't know how many virologists have explained to you over the last two years why they think LL is unlikely.
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https://twitter.com/MJnanostretch/status/1508508504688144390

Why are you deliberately lying?
Why are you creating a false narrative that 'scientists are losing credibility with the public?' Nope.
Scientists have become more trusted overall, despite you LL lot firing on the Frankenstein trope and sowing doubt like it's seeding season.

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Lab leakers drawing the conspiracy prone into their echo chambers to bombard them with disinformation and manufactured doubt is not evidence of scientific dishonesty, but of effective propaganda you fuckwits have been engaged in (and were empowered by algorithms).

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Seriously, how many times have actual domain experts explained to you personally why the evidence does not add up to a lab leak? How many papers have to be published? How many pop-sci articles and social media engagements?

Where is that 'deliberate ignorance' you allege?

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The virologists can explain the science to you, they can not understand it for you.

All of them said it would be great to get more transparency from China and all possibilities should be investigated.

So who is passing the hot potato?
Maybe the lab leakers who can't figure

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out why the recent pre-prints are dispositive evidence against lab leak?

Or those who can figure it out and rather choose to ignore it in favor of their evidence-free fantasies?

Who exactly ignores the science here?

Anti-science dimwits online cannot handle to do the work

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to understand even the baseline of the science, but feel confident to judge that 'the scientists' must ignore lab leak because no evidence for it ever turned up.

Nice circular reasoning.

All the evidence we have comes from scientists.

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Lab leakers have not contributed anything to the scientific discussion because all they do is ignore, distort or cherry-pick the work of scientists to spin the fantasies, or worse, harass them with pointless FOIAs to do the same context-free cherry-picking to their emails.

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This worked great when there was a genuine scientific uncertainty in the beginning of the pandemic, and the gaping holes in our understanding were filled with salient narratives. That time is over now, the evidence is in, lab leak has no leg to stand on anymore.

It could have
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turned out differently, because before people investigated and researched, we hardly had enough data to explain any scenario.

Now more than 2 years in, the parameter space of uncertainty for lab leak shrank to zero while evidence for zoonosis at market became strong.

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You might not like it and try to complain on social media at the top of your lungs how 'the science must be wrong/biased', but that just puts you together with all the other anti-science cranks there are; climate change deniers, anti-vaxxers, GMO you name it.

Not that this

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is a stretch, because many lab leakers are already at the aforementioned stops in their understanding of a few of the common anti-science tropes.

So tell me again, who exactly has lost credibility when it comes to science?
Lab leak might be popular with the anti-science

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crowd online, and maybe this is the 'public' you have in mind while writing your garbage above, but don't mistake any of these anti-science dynamics and drivers fostering such groups online as having anything to do with scientists or their honesty.

You damn liar.

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