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Henry Fitzgerald @henryfitzgerald.bsky.social

Nope to what exactly? Are you seriously saying that if the left (or rather, the scientific establishment, legacy media, etc.) had been honest and open about the likelihood of a lab leak, this would NOT have made a difference? Or if not that, what? What exactly are you denying?

jul 26, 2025, 5:10 am • 0 0

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Ben Pierce @benfpiercephd.bsky.social

The "left", agnostic overall, hardly promoted one over the other. It's that vocal supporters from the "right" were very loud on this one (because there should always be someone to blame!). The problem: there still isn't any evidence in support of the lab leak.

jul 26, 2025, 10:39 am • 0 0 • view
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Henry Fitzgerald @henryfitzgerald.bsky.social

Fair enough to say "the left" is ill-defined. But the lab leak theory WAS suppressed; how would you succinctly say who by? (Genuine question.) The claim that there "isn't any evidence" for it is shockingly ignorant. The place of origin (for instance) is compelling evidence, all by itself.

jul 26, 2025, 6:38 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ben Pierce @benfpiercephd.bsky.social

And yet, the Huanan Seafood Market is also in...Wuhan.

jul 26, 2025, 7:27 pm • 0 0 • view
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Henry Fitzgerald @henryfitzgerald.bsky.social

Yes, the city has a food market, like every other town on Earth. It also has a virology lab studying coronaviruses, UNLIKE most other towns. Setting aside the relative strength of the evidence I just mentioned, it clearly IS evidence; so your claim that there's "no evidence" is manifestly false.

jul 26, 2025, 7:47 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ben Pierce @benfpiercephd.bsky.social

I'm not sure you know about the other CoV labs in China. Have a read through some research papers and come back. Particularly regarding any with epi / genomic evidence, there literally is 0 evidence that supports a lab leak.

jul 26, 2025, 7:53 pm • 0 0 • view
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Henry Fitzgerald @henryfitzgerald.bsky.social

You said there was "no evidence" that the virus was leaked from a lab: that turned out to be laughably false. You come back with the much harder to check, and arbitrarily circumscribed claim that there is no *genomic* evidence supporting a lab leak theory...

jul 26, 2025, 8:13 pm • 0 0 • view
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Henry Fitzgerald @henryfitzgerald.bsky.social

I obviously can't give any weight to that assertion (you've blown your credibility on the earlier claim); yet like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz I'm sent on a wild goose chase through unspecified "research papers" before I'm allowed to "come back" to you.

jul 26, 2025, 8:15 pm • 0 0 • view