Did SARS-Cov-2 start in a Chinese lab?

Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters recommend it as a methodical debunking of early lab-leak claims.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

potholer54

Topic

covid origins

Format

explainer

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

6

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2021

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From the original HN conversations

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• If anyone here wants a break from Joe Rogan and Eric Weinstein's world view here is a suggestion: [VIDEO] Did SARS-Cov-2 start in a Chinese lab? Potholer54 is an Australian science journalist whoes mission it is to debunk junk science and conspiracy theories. He is …

• > I'm not denying the plausibility that it was simply a mistake with a highly contagious virus being studied in their Wuhan lab There are two labs in Wuhan. The institute of virology, and the wuhan CDC. The institute of virology is 12 km from …

• A lot of this “circumstantial evidence” was and is game-of-telephone nonsense. Many mix together two completely different institutions (the Wuhan Center for Disease Control and the Wuhan Institute of Virology) which are several kilometres apart, for example. (Edit: [VIDEO] is a great look at said …