from Hacker News

Scientists refute claims they were bribed, influenced to deny ‘lab leak’ theory

by we_never_see_it on 7/18/23, 2:29 PM with 9 comments

• by pjc50 on 7/18/23, 3:43 PM

  The lab leak theory is weird to me. Absent some remarkable discovery and a few defectors, even if it had happened, we're unlikely to find conclusive proof now. The virus has been studied enough to know that there are no "biomarkers". And if it was true .. then so what? What follows from that belief?

  It's also politically linked to an odd set of other beliefs - covid denial/minimization and anti-lockdown/anti-maskers. Are we supposed to believe "COVID was a Chinese bioweapon and therefore we should have done nothing about it"?

• by RugnirViking on 7/18/23, 2:44 PM

  It's seems like an extraordinarily bad idea to report on something like this. It's like reporting on a not guilty verdict, the effect is the opposite of what justice wants