tobi to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year agoResearchers believe that corona origins in the laboratory are possiblewww-spiegel-de.translate.googexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up127arrow-down116
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minus-square@Gork@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish9•1 year agoWasn’t the consensus of virologists in the early days of the pandemic that a lab origin was completely preposterous?
minus-square@neptune@dmv.sociallinkfedilinkEnglish17•1 year agoI don’t really recall that being the case. I do recall people agreeing that using the plausibility of a lab leak to just make COVID an anti China crusade was stupid and bad and in some cases racist.
minus-square@Gigan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish6•1 year agoTrump said it though, so most people abandoned critical thinking at that point.
Wasn’t the consensus of virologists in the early days of the pandemic that a lab origin was completely preposterous?
I don’t really recall that being the case. I do recall people agreeing that using the plausibility of a lab leak to just make COVID an anti China crusade was stupid and bad and in some cases racist.
Trump said it though, so most people abandoned critical thinking at that point.