Way back in January, BD raised the possibility in class that SARS-CoV-2 was the product of Chinese experimentation. I knew about this claim, but at the time I was dismissive.
Also around this time, the financially-oriented blog Zero Hedge made assertions that such work might have been done by specific scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Twitter accused Zero Hedge authors of doxing, and banned them for life.
As we've gotten more information about the beginnings of the outbreak, I've taken a Bayesian position that my posterior probability is being driven towards it being a human-made problem (if maybe not quite a human-created virus). Apologies to BD.
Also ... Twitter quietly rescinded their lifetime ban on Zero Hedge a couple of weeks back.
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