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One thing I've noticed as a result of the pandemic: there are many people who think that Listening to Experts is the same thing as Doing Science. Everyone who has strong feelings about the lab leak hypothesis (in either direction) would do well to remember the Litany of Tarski:

    If SARS-COV-2 escaped from the WIV,
    I desire to believe that SARS-COV-2 escaped from the WIV;
    If SARS-COV-2 did not escape from the WIV,
    I desire to believe that SARS-COV-2 did not escape from the WIV;
    Let me not become attached to beliefs I may not want.

Just because the CDC or some other experts say it didn't happen doesn't mean it didn't. Just because Fox or some other conspiracy theorist says it did happen doesn't mean it did.


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