Practically every time there’s a revolutionary new phenomenon or happenstance that significantly alters the course of human society, there are a number of ideas that arise to challenge the mainstream narrative. While these can be scientifically motivated by a subset of the evidence, more often these challenges take the form of a conspiracy theory: where a number of people involved allegedly know the real, full truth behind an issue, but are covering it up, presenting an alternative narrative instead. When you mix conspiracies with science, certain people are inevitably drawn to those ideas, which include:
nonsense, the guy is an astrophysicist, so what is he talking about?
ReplyDeleteAnd by the same token, attributing it to the wuhan wet market is also a conspiracy theory - it is just based on a claim with no evidence at all to support it.
Anyone who calls lab leak a conspiracy theory is a partisan hack. If lab leak origin is a conspiracy theory, then zoonotic spillover origin in nature is no less so.
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