re: COVID Lab Leak Theory Resurfaces After Controversial New Study

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But my question is why you think “we will never know?” Surely if it’s zoologic in origin we will know at some point, right?

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We will never know if there was a conspiracy if no good evidence ever shows up for one. As for science discerning causes, those answers are provisional and scientific consensus is often slow. There's a saying that "science advances from funeral to funeral" because even though science as a practice and as a community is sensitive to evidence, individuals are stubborn, stick to their pet theories and there are a lot of outliers. A lot of discourse propaganda uses cherry-picked science to allow you to use studies (and you can find a study to support virtually anything) to support your own priors and thus a thread like this can "prove" almost anything people want it to.