Quote:Wray’s public endorsement of the lab leak theory runs counter to the conclusions of several prominent scientific studies, as well as the assessments of some other US intelligence agencies. Wray did not explain the evidence that had informed the FBI’s conclusion. “There’s not a whole lot of details I can share that aren’t classified,” he said.
The Central Intelligence Agency and another prominent US federal agency still remain undecided
about the origins of Covid-19, while the
National Intelligence Council and four other agencies have concluded that the virus originated in animals, the Wall Street Journal reported this week.
A security official moves journalists away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology
How seriously should we take the US DoE’s Covid lab leak theory?
The energy department also concluded in a classified intelligence report that Covid-19 most likely resulted from a laboratory leak,
but made this assessment with “low confidence”, while the FBI reached the same conclusion in 2021 with
“moderate confidence”, the Wall Street Journal reported.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/28/fbi-director-endorses-china-lab-leak-covid-theory
Quote:FBI Director Wray acknowledges bureau assessment that Covid-19
likely resulted from lab incident
Bobby's post above fails to note that many more disagree than agree and even the FBI rate their outcome with
“moderate confidence”.
The scientist mainly say that they still think it a natural spread because of the virus's makeup and the way that it works. It is different from what a Lab designed virus should look like. They also say that they are open to look at any evidence that suggests different.
Quote:“While I believe the ‘lab leak’ theory a real possibility, I should point out that the [energy department’s]
assessment has ‘low confidence’ in that assessment and
their assessment did not change the minds of any of the other agencies,” Dr Filippa Lentzos, a reader in science and international security at King’s College London, previously told the Guardian.
Some scientists who have studied the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic have pushed back against the endorsement of the lab leak theory by US agencies. Scientists have also noted that, unlike peer-reviewed scientific studies, the US intelligence assessments being debated do not provide public transparency about how they reached their conclusions or the evidence they accumulated.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/28/fbi-director-endorses-china-lab-... Looks like the report was like a case of eeny meeny miny Moe and nobody has much faith in the outcome.
Most believe that a lab leak is possible but nobody really knows.
The major thing pointing to the lab is the coincidence that there is a lab right there. The thing that points away from the lab is the scientific knowledge of the make up of the virus.
The truth is unknown but either possible.
If it was a lab produced virus the Chinese would have had access to the full virus from the beginning and from there should have easily developed a vaccine. As the Chinese never developed an effective vaccine points to them not having the virus samples.
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