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Angela's avatar

Here’s my main problem with the “lab leak” idea: the Wuhan lab wasn’t a secret black facility, they had international collaborators. So if they had isolated and cultured a new coronavirus that was the ancestor of SARS-Cov-2, and were doing gain of function or host change experiments on it, wouldn’t they have mentioned it to someone outside the lab?

Now you could claim that maybe this particular project was secret, but why would it be, when I believe they had done similar work with international collaborators? It’s not like coronaviruses would have military value - an agent that spreads easily between people and usually causes mild symptoms in people young and fit enough to be soldiers is the opposite of what you’d want.

What would scientists in this field say to this objection?

To me the only “leak” scenario that makes sense is that they brought it back from the bat caves without realising it.

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Kushal's avatar

I remember Bret Weinstein talking about this Lab leak Hypothesis on Rogan.

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