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rhino369 on June 24, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: What happened to the lab-leak hypothesis?

It was tightly coupled to that stuff by fact checkers and other opponents to silence any questions.

rtkwe on June 24, 2022 | [–]

A lot of what I saw were channels pushing both at the same time. An accidental leak of an attempted bioweapon or something like that was pretty popular in some circles.

polynomial on June 24, 2022 | [–]

Despite being made of flimsy material, some of these straw men are actually quite effective, it seems.

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