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Post by rgs318 on Feb 27, 2023 20:01:09 GMT -5
If he gave his best educated opinion, based on what was known at the time, why would anyone expect a mea culpa? If you're suggesting he pushed unverified information....that's even worse. His words were like Gospel during the height of the pandemic. He was trusted by many. I'm sorry but he ended up being wrong. He'd have better off saying that we have to wait for intelligence to do their job. But he didn't. Has nothing to do with politics. Has to do with trust. I never suggested that. What I am saying is that his opinion was based on what, at the time, was the current theory of causation. If you do not trust what he said, he has no need to apologize. I choose to trust his opinion more than yours...sorry.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Feb 27, 2023 20:25:02 GMT -5
I have searched for a peer-reviewed paper demonstrating that COVID originated in the Wuhan lab. I have found none. A peer-previewed paper in a reputable journal is about as close to the gold standard as one gets. I did come across this article in Vox, in which a pre-print of an article asserting that the Wuhan lab created the virus was informally circulated. www.vox.com/future-perfect/2022/10/26/23425272/covid-origins-lab-leak-sars-cov-2-washburne-wuhan-virologyThe article never made it to print. I doubt that anyone on this forum other than myself is familiar with the astrophysicist Thomas Gold, a professor at Cornell. (Gold died in 2004). www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/shooting-the-moon-27389927/ Gold is an illustration of a noted and highly reputable scientist who begins opining on matters outside his field of expertise, and in this instance, one could say opining within the loose boundaries of his field of expertise. And when ultimately proven to be in error, tries to recant.
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