Let's be clear: For over a year now, every biologist on this site has been patiently and elaborately explaining the likelihood of an inadvertent leak While you've been enthusiastically posting Vox articles that are devoid of science. You're on the downslope. So that's something. But when you say You could do a quick headcount of -ologists in the conversation before adding ___________________________________ There's no Patient Zero for AIDS, either. No Patient Zero for Hep C, no Patient Zero for MERS, no Patient Zero for Ebola. What there is is a lot of circumstantial evidence that is being protected from investigation, which is not the case for Hep C, MERS or Ebola.
I'm not a biologist or immunologist or any -ologist at all.
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I post the articles I read that I think have some merit, and I never post without comments. I want to learn. This type of feedback - and deeper reading - help me to mature my understanding of the problem space, and where the fulcrum points are in each argument. And I only do Hubski in my spare time when I need something other than work to focus on for a bit... a distraction to freshen up my mind. So nothing I post here is intended to be exhaustive or authoritative. (Although I do tend to have an "absolutist" way of writing that makes it seem I am much more married to a stance than I actually am.) Writing that way also assuages the pain from the marketing bullshit I spend much of my time writing... :-)