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Biden Officials at conference endorsing zoonotic origin as established science (dossier.substack.com)
5 points by Jimmc414 on Dec 8, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



I'm perfectly willing to believe in the zoonotic origin, but it's increasingly difficult to do so when proponents of it don't even begin to recognise the gigantic set of circumstantial evidence against this hypothesis and just hand wave about how all the experts agree.

My understanding of the zoonotic origin is that a mystery rural visitor transmitted it to Wuhan residents and then it vanished at the original location. I'm not saying it isn't true, but it is conveniently difficult to disprove.


> The Global Health Council (GHC), an outfit funded by the U.S. government and the Gates Foundation, along with smaller private donors, will kick off its annual conference Wednesday afternoon. The GHC is a leftwing organization aligned with climate change fanaticism and the priorities of the degrowth movement, and it seeks to promote ESG policies to facilitate these outcomes.

This reminded me of the concept of Crank Magnetism:

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Crank_magnetism




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