More Scientists Urge Broad Inquiry into Coronavirus Origins
What i find weird is the extreme and very unscientific agression among certain virologist:
"If you think SARS-CoV-2 was engineered in a lab, please unfollow me.  "
<a href="https://twitter.com/macroliter/status/1390720308265508871" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/macroliter/status/1390720308265508871</a><p>Then you have other academics in the comments saying nothing is certain yet, and other prominents labs like Gupta Labs at Cambridge and Bloom Lab from Seattle saying there could be multiple explanations.<p>I know the issue is politicised and that's wrong as Ecohealth alliance from the US sponsored this research so there is no "single country at fault" - no need to avoid topics.<p>It's not "chinas fault" it's more like, what on earth was the US based Ecohealth alliance doing with this research, why so many previous lab leaks with little attention, what is the history if the Wuhan lab, whats the actual facts about Gain of Function research etc. All topics that the press is not looking into for some reason.<p>On Ecohealth alliance:<p>“ It later turned out that the Lancet letter had been organized and drafted by Peter Daszak, president of the EcoHealth Alliance of New York. Daszak’s organization funded coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. If the SARS2 virus had indeed escaped from research he funded, Daszak would be potentially culpable. This acute conflict of interest was not declared to the Lancet’s readers. To the contrary, the letter concluded, “We declare no competing interests.””<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27071432" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27071432</a>