Many responsible adults jumped on the 'it can't be man made' bandwagon out of instinct.
It feels like the kind of narrative that could lead to destabilization and may be fueled by xenophobia.
But beyond the responsible adults there are few people in the world that can study the genome and they never really had internal consensus. They had internal consensus to downplay the 'its made in a lab' conclusion, but there is no clear evidence of the opposite.
Keep in mind at that moment in time this would give ammunition to general public to harass random asian looking individuals.
You can imagine that's a not a conclusion you want to exist in the head of your common hooligan.
You can also imagine that most people convinced of anything are just, ehm, idiots. Because if you can't do the science yourself, or if you can't but haven't, it would be foolish to believe any kind of consensus where most of the people talking also can't or haven't done the science themselves. The majority is always wrong, and scientific consensus of a new event becomes insightfully about 10 years in after a few revolutions of ideas like the one currently happening.
It is in the end just a economic system of gatekeeping by a cabal. A cabal very much in a situation of economic dependency on political structures. So there can't be a scientific consensus about this in the media. Only a political one.
> Many responsible adults jumped on the 'it can't be man made' bandwagon out of instinct.
A common error or misrepresentation seemed to be conflation of "lab escape" with "man made." They're not the same thing; a virus from nature (smallpox etc.) could still escape from a lab.
It feels like the kind of narrative that could lead to destabilization and may be fueled by xenophobia.
But beyond the responsible adults there are few people in the world that can study the genome and they never really had internal consensus. They had internal consensus to downplay the 'its made in a lab' conclusion, but there is no clear evidence of the opposite.
Keep in mind at that moment in time this would give ammunition to general public to harass random asian looking individuals.
You can imagine that's a not a conclusion you want to exist in the head of your common hooligan.
You can also imagine that most people convinced of anything are just, ehm, idiots. Because if you can't do the science yourself, or if you can't but haven't, it would be foolish to believe any kind of consensus where most of the people talking also can't or haven't done the science themselves. The majority is always wrong, and scientific consensus of a new event becomes insightfully about 10 years in after a few revolutions of ideas like the one currently happening.
It is in the end just a economic system of gatekeeping by a cabal. A cabal very much in a situation of economic dependency on political structures. So there can't be a scientific consensus about this in the media. Only a political one.