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Biden administration releases US intelligence on Wuhan lab (www.politico.com)

submitted 1 year ago by BrikoX@vlemmy.net to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] ptz@dubvee.org 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, when has Republican screeching not been to push a disingenuous narrative?

[–] cookiedillo@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can imagine the disingenuous narrative. I was trying to see or understand if there was a realistic or genuine one.

Honestly, if the root is discovered to be a lab leak the likihood it was due to a conspiracy to create and release a bio weapon is almost zilch. More likely people not following safty procedures through laziness and hubris while they conducted typical viral research.

Also I could be wrong but a $600K contribution to a research lab doesn't sound like it would go very far.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can imagine the disingenuous narrative. I was trying to see or understand if there was a realistic or genuine one.

Honestly, I don't even think it goes that far and looking any deeper is probably giving them way too much credit. Their only goal is to make their opponents look bad and/or fan the flames of a conspiracy theory their base is rabid about (not that those two things are mutually exclusive, mind you).

Either way, it's manufactured outrage: nothing more, nothing less. They have no policies (or principles, shame, or integrity for that matter, but I digress) so they engage in this pointless garbage to keep their base afraid and angry.

Some of them are just plain stupid, yes, but the rest know exactly what they're doing.

Also I could be wrong but a $600K contribution to a research lab doesn’t sound like it would go very far.

But that's $600K in Freedom Dollars™, so after conversion, it's like 200 billion, trillion dollars /s.

[–] bunkyprewster@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago

The purpose is to make people distrust science.