https://twitter.com/Rossana38510044/status/13806444823669841...
> the scientists among us should be trying to properly falsify it to the best of our ability.
This is precisely why I am bothered this has been placed into "conspiracy theory" land, due to a lot of political reasons and a whole lot of online pressure with those "hand-wavy" arguments. The same type of arguments you originally did not accept. I get them constantly when I post facts, and the are meant specifically to try to steer the discussion away from anything I was pointing out, to get that last word in.
Did SARS-CoV-2, with its affinity for human ACE2, leak from a lab in Wuhan that was doing known gain of function experiments dealing with CoV and human ACE2?
Or did it somehow show up in a market right next to the lab, with "hand-wavy" explanations as to how that happened?
The science seems to strongly point to one of those. Since access to the lab has been completely shut down, and historical information on the web has been systematically being removed, finding a smoking gun is difficult. But I feel an extremely strong case can be made with circumstantial evidence.