"Forbes Media, which encompasses the magazine Forbes and other related business ventures, is majority-owned by Integrated Whale Media Investments. The Hong Kong investment group purchased a controlling stake in the company in 2014 for an undisclosed amount."<p><a href="https://marketrealist.com/p/who-owns-forbes-magazine/" rel="nofollow">https://marketrealist.com/p/who-owns-forbes-magazine/</a>
I’m not sure why we should rely on a ‘phd astrophysicist’ to evaluate the evidence for this.<p>This article doesn’t seem to add anything to the debate, and certainly doesn’t persuade me that this hypothesis is a ‘conspiracy’.
Im dont even get the debate. Theres a lab studying and experimenting on sars viruses so OF COURSE there COULD be a leak.<p>Still its a GOOD thing to have labs studying it. Accidents happen its a fact of life so a leak (or even a ramdom mutation) was always a matter of when not if. Playing the blaming game is not going to change anything.<p>And actually if anything to blame, we should blame politicians who didnt listen to people like Bill Gates when he said this exact kind of viruses coul make milions of death and that we should prepare for it three years ago. But still.. humans always react, not proact, its another fact of life that no amount of internet outrage will change.<p>In the end the virus will make our society stronger to thkd kind of threat.. But then when will be the turning point for the climate ?
" In summary, if SARS-CoV-2 was created in a lab — which the evidence does not favor — this virus somehow won the generic lottery on multiple, complex fronts, each one of which is an active research area in virology to this day "<p>I'm not entirely sure why this article is being pushed up. There is reason to believe that it could be still born from a lab, as reality is stranger than fiction. And i also think that labeling it as a conspiracy label is very sensational too. Another odd thing is that this was written by an astrophysicist.
We still don't know where Ebola came from, we're never going to definitively answer this question. So even if it's not a conspiracy theory yet, it's going to spawn some doozies over the next decade.<p>Both the natural origin and lab leak are plausible theories. It matters less what happened in the past and more what we'll do in the future to prevent and/or mitigate both in the future.
This would be the preferred understanding.<p>This understanding would be abetted by a more thorough, trusted analysis than has been on offer.<p>That trusted analysis may be unattainable.
I don't think the writer is being fair here because he is putting the lab-leak theory in the same category as the moon landing hoax. I don't think the situation is that simple. Both zoonotic and lab-leak are hypotheses and the evidence will slowly start pointing towards one of them. Why try to take a stand when one doesn't know enough?
China Critical Scholars' statement on the lab leak investigation <a href="https://criticalchinascholars.org/interventions/" rel="nofollow">https://criticalchinascholars.org/interventions/</a>