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mk  ·  1688 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: State Department cables warned of safety issues at Wuhan lab studying bat coronaviruses

    His argument, which has slowly worn me down, is that there's ample evidence that the chinese have been fucking around with SARS on the reg because Chinese researchers are just sorta fundamentally reckless.

To be clear, there's ample evidence that the international scientific community have been mutating these viruses, and playing with the products for the last decade. However, scientists in China have been doing so under conditions that make a leak more likely.