PolitiFact’s fact check had linked to a statement published in the journal Nature Medicine in March 2020 by a group of five virologists who argued that the virus that causes COVID-19 exhibited no signs of purposeful laboratory manipulation.
Longtime New York Times science reporter Nicholas Wade wrote in May that despite the Nature Medicine statement being “full of absurdly large holes” and “grounded in nothing but two inconclusive speculations,” it successfully “convinced the world’s press that SARS2 could not have escaped from a lab.”
Even if the first claim was true, the second does not follow from the first. "This virus was not modified in a lab" does not mean "this virus was not in a lab."
One of the arguments was even weaker (the suboptimal protein binding site argument) which just supports that it either wasn't designed as a weapon, or if a weapon it was a weapon made to not obviously look like a weapon.
Even if the first claim was true, the second does not follow from the first. "This virus was not modified in a lab" does not mean "this virus was not in a lab."
Strawman arguments are a staple of all the "fact-checking" sites.
One of the arguments was even weaker (the suboptimal protein binding site argument) which just supports that it either wasn't designed as a weapon, or if a weapon it was a weapon made to not obviously look like a weapon.
Facts come and go, but factchecks are forever.
The only thing that changed is the Biden Administration take the theory seriously.
I love how liars never want to admit they are liars. The dems are full of these.
It's amazing how quickly discussion shifted on this after China started acting against feminism within their borders.
Push for regime change in China?
It's well past time. Those people have suffered under the boot of communism for long enough.
i was saying at the start of wuflu that it was almost a moral imperative to nuke beijing