Public health officials often mislead the American people through conflicting messaging, knee-jerk reactions, and a lack of transparency. Most egregiously, the federal government demonized alternative treatments and disfavored narratives, such as the lab leak theory, in a shameful effort to coerce and control the American people’s health decisions.
When those efforts failed, the Biden Administration resorted to “outright censorship—coercing and colluding with the world’s largest social media companies to censor all COVID-19-related dissent.”
ReptileMan•6h ago
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simmerup•5h ago
It looks so unlike a western government page to me.
chvid•5h ago
chvid•5h ago
But not in any meaningful scientific sense - I believe the mainstream science view is (still?) that it was likely a spillover event similar to the original SARS epidemic.
JohnFen•4h ago
dzdt•4h ago
His summary conclusion: "There is much greater scientific support for the [zoonotic hypothesis]. Conclusion: The main gap in the zoonotic hypothesis is the lack of a detected intermediate host, which has not been found yet. In turn, although the hypothesis of a laboratory leak has not been supported by sufficient scientific evidence, it cannot be definitively discarded."
The weight of scientific evidence is AGAINST the lab leak hypothesis, but the waters are so muddy from politicization of the topic that consensus or proof will likely never be achieved. This is the same conclusion at [2]:
"The consensus among scientists is that, although a lab leak origin is possible, the scientific evidence points to a natural, zoonotic origin from wild animals."
[1] JPMCHR 2024 https://doi.org/10.38207/JCMPHR/2024/JAN05020519 https://www.acquaintpublications.com/article/four-years-late...
[2] BMJ 2024; 386 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q1578 (Published 09 September 2024) https://www.bmj.com/content/386/bmj.q1578
ReptileMan•3h ago
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