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1. caseys+3r1[view] [source] 2021-05-07 15:27:35
>>datafl+(OP)
I think the media successfully conflated four separate questions:

a) Did it form in nature or in a lab?

b) Did it become more communicable via nature or via the lab?

c) Did it make it to humans through nature (or wet market) or via the lab?

d) If it came from the lab was it on purpose or an accident?

as simply "OMG IT CAME FROM A LAB" and then claimed it's all a conspiracy theory.

The media as a whole shot themselves in the foot on this one and we'll all be worse off for it.

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2. thomas+pM1[view] [source] 2021-05-07 17:13:19
>>caseys+3r1
> The media as a whole shot themselves in the foot on this one and we'll all be worse off for it.

Science reporters don't generally understand science, and nuanced takes don't generate clicks. The "media" is the absolute worst place for this discussion to take place.

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