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minus-squareSilverseren@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down1·9 months agoI mean, you’d do the research where you would be finding the wild zoonotic pathogens you want to study. So the location makes perfect sense. The biosafety issues are more just a long-standing problem with how science is done in China in general, which is overall bad.
minus-squareTrismegistusMx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down16·9 months agoSo you admit that China has lax protocols, and that the US and China were studying the same virus that became a problem later, but you offer me nothing but insults for wondering if that same virus leaked from that same poor quality lab. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
I mean, you’d do the research where you would be finding the wild zoonotic pathogens you want to study. So the location makes perfect sense.
The biosafety issues are more just a long-standing problem with how science is done in China in general, which is overall bad.
So you admit that China has lax protocols, and that the US and China were studying the same virus that became a problem later, but you offer me nothing but insults for wondering if that same virus leaked from that same poor quality lab.
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.