Why the pandemic probably started in a lab, in 5 key points

by jashkenas on 6/3/2024, 9:48:53 AM with 30 comments

  • by robocat on 6/3/2024, 12:32:21 PM

    I thought this was a great summary of the "debate":

    https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/practically-a-book-review-r...

  • by ethagnawl on 6/3/2024, 11:49:36 AM

    I'm curious to know to what extent these sorts of data-rich stories are templatized. My guess is that they're to the point where the components used in this piece were pulled from an existing widget library. Otherwise, that'd be a lot of effort for ... such an opinion piece.

    Also, the native reading experience on Android is surprisingly bad. The content was scrolling out from under me unexpectedly and other times -- reminiscent of the old FOUC on the web. I also felt "stuck" while trying to navigate through some of the dataviz components.

  • by r721 on 6/3/2024, 9:56:25 AM

    >OPINION

    >By Alina Chan

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alina_Chan

  • by tim333 on 6/4/2024, 10:02:49 PM

    Jeffrey Sachs is quite entertaining on similar points https://youtu.be/JS-3QssVPeg?t=6500

    He was Chairman of the Lancet Covid-19 Commission, and originally a believer that it didn't come from a lab, now flipped. Sorry the interview is with Tucker. Quite a lot more on the politics of the thing and why it would have happened than the nyt article.

  • by yawpitch on 6/3/2024, 10:11:58 AM

    And yet, shockingly, the consensus of the actually qualified remains that it didn’t start in a lab.