Given the type of bat viruses experimented with at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the proximity of the lab to the Market, the probability of a lab leak may be low, but is not zero. Any paper that does not take this into account is de facto biased.
The issue is now purely political. No matter what happened it does not reflect well on the Chinese regime. They would be embarrassed by the truth no matter what it is.
Do they allow inhumane and unsanitary meat markets that traffic in endangered species? That is very embarrassing.
Did they mismanage their scientific labs or engage in dangerous unauthorized experiments. That is bad news too.
What would a clever psyops/dezinformatsiya officer do with the case? How about giving both sides of the ongoing culture wars in America enough information to make sure that they fight each other rather than China?
As Sun-Tzu said: “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
It is interesting how the Lancet seems to be at the center of a scandal very frequently in recent years. It seems like they are determined to lose their status as one of the most prestigious journals in the world in their rush to virtue signal and be on the 'correct' side of every issue.
Just for clarification, the debate over whether Covid leaked from the lab is separate from the debate that Covid was engineered or modified in the lab, correct?
Given the type of bat viruses experimented with at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the proximity of the lab to the Market, the probability of a lab leak may be low, but is not zero. Any paper that does not take this into account is de facto biased.
The issue is now purely political. No matter what happened it does not reflect well on the Chinese regime. They would be embarrassed by the truth no matter what it is.
Do they allow inhumane and unsanitary meat markets that traffic in endangered species? That is very embarrassing.
Did they mismanage their scientific labs or engage in dangerous unauthorized experiments. That is bad news too.
What would a clever psyops/dezinformatsiya officer do with the case? How about giving both sides of the ongoing culture wars in America enough information to make sure that they fight each other rather than China?
As Sun-Tzu said: “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
We are being played.
It is interesting how the Lancet seems to be at the center of a scandal very frequently in recent years. It seems like they are determined to lose their status as one of the most prestigious journals in the world in their rush to virtue signal and be on the 'correct' side of every issue.
The translated snippet was pure gold.
Just for clarification, the debate over whether Covid leaked from the lab is separate from the debate that Covid was engineered or modified in the lab, correct?