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An editor has started an RfC about whether the announcement by the FBI and the U.S. Department of Energy that they support the COVID-19 lab leak theory should be in the lede of the COVID-19 lab leak theory article. Editors are invited to contribute. TarnishedPathtalk 02:01, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
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Reading the talk threads, it seems to me that editor @Bon courage has disproportionate impact on this talk page. Other editors have commented on the tone used by @Bon courage when speaking to other editors as antagonistic. I agree. It's my suggestion that an additional admin who has not yet contributed would be more helpful for improving this article. The professionalism of @Bon courage, at least on this talk page, seems to be hampered by their ambiguous, unnecessary references to popular opinion, such as in comments like " The hot take on LL at the moment is that it was a ruse sold to the sheeple, and that those who have truly taken the red pill can see LL for the lie it is (as there was no virus)." This type of engagement would not be tolerated in less senior editors or admins, and suggests an abuse of privilege. There are minor editors here trying in earnest to inform the public's encyclopedic search for whether sars-cov-2 and similar viruses may have been tied to laboratory research, a subject which has been given better consideration in the wiki pages covering the earlier SARS outbreaks. We may not like the conclusions the public draws on the information presented, but, for example, if there is a source that can substantiate that any research on sars like viruses was being done on animal vectors in laboratories in Wuhan, that is relevant information and should be provided, if not here then in the pertinent articles. UserSwamp (talk) 13:34, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
if there is a source that can substantiate that any research on sars like viruses was being done on animal vectors in laboratories in Wuhan
← there is none (as reliable sources tell us). This is rather the point. Your arguments seems to be a complaint that evidence is being presented you don't like? Bon courage (talk) 14:14, 7 April 2024 (UTC)- @Bon courage, I urge you not to make assumptions about fellow editors' intentions, please. All information is worth evaluating. I am not afraid of any information from any source, whether I previously agreed with any conclusions drawn, because I am confident in my reading comprehension and my own skepticism. This complaint is specifically about elitist tendencies masqueraded as impartiality that are rampant among veteran editors. My quote of yours above was to call attention to the fact that all editors, veteran or other wise, fall subject to letting their personal histories influence their speech to other editors and the way they interact with edits. Anyways, it might calm you down to hear me summarize my understanding of the origin. I believe reports that the wet market in wuhan was the primary location of spread of sars cov 2 in Wuhan. I believe the article published by the Wuhan researchers themselves that sars-cov-2 initially developed in wild bats. I also believe that article's following statement: "Simplot analysis showed that 2019-nCoV was highly similar throughout the genome to RaTG13 (Fig. 1c), with an overall genome sequence identity of 96.2%." I also believe the addendum to that article that states the Wuhan team did bring a field sampled virus, later confirmed to be RaTG13 , back to the Wuhan lab and published that data in 2016. Which means the Lab in Wuhan lab possessed highly related samples of sars viruses. I accept but find it not salient that RatG13 specifically is not sufficiently close enough to be implicated as an ancestor to Sars-cov-2. I do not know, and maybe never will know whether the line of transmission of Sars-cov-2 from wild bat to Wuhan wet market ever included a brief stay as a lab sample at a nearby virology lab. But to assert that encyclopedia readers are not to be trusted with the information that a lab analyzing closely related sars viruses could at some point have been involved with accidental escape is elitist at best. UserSwamp (talk) 22:42, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
- I never said anything about your "intentions". You say you "believe" many things but this is not a WP:NOTAFORUM so discussion of your personal beliefs is not appropriate. When treating such "beliefs" Wikipedia follows reliable sources like this which goes into detail about RaTG13 conspiracy theories, and has an actual virologist[1] as author. As is stated in the lableak article, "There is no evidence that any laboratory had samples of SARS-CoV-2, or a plausible ancestor virus, prior to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic".[1]Bon courage (talk) 04:51, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
- When you said "Your arguments seems to be a complaint that evidence is being presented you don't like?", it seemed to me that you were assuming to know what evidence I intend to not like from the get go, i.e., you assume I'm a wacko conspiracy theorist. Please read my use of the phrase "I believe" in the sense of "to find credible." And in that regard, I was trying to show you that I find credible some of the same sources you do, like the ones I listed, and which are used as sources elsewhere in Wikipedia. This talk page is for us to come to a consensus on what language and sources we agree should be used, i.e., what we as a group agree is credible. Finally, yes, I concede that no sources conclude that an ancestor virus to Sars-cov-2 had been reported to have been in possession by the Wuhan lab, or any lab. As you notice, I have not even attempted to make edits on this actual article yet. At some point, what will become relevant in the future on some other Wikipedia article is whether any virology labs are harboring closely related viruses to Sars-cov-2 as well as the track record for lab accidents of those labs. UserSwamp (talk) 20:58, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
All information is worth evaluating
Even misinformation? I suspect you need to read WP:FRINGE. --Hob Gadling (talk) 09:18, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
- I never said anything about your "intentions". You say you "believe" many things but this is not a WP:NOTAFORUM so discussion of your personal beliefs is not appropriate. When treating such "beliefs" Wikipedia follows reliable sources like this which goes into detail about RaTG13 conspiracy theories, and has an actual virologist[1] as author. As is stated in the lableak article, "There is no evidence that any laboratory had samples of SARS-CoV-2, or a plausible ancestor virus, prior to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic".[1]Bon courage (talk) 04:51, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
- @Bon courage, I urge you not to make assumptions about fellow editors' intentions, please. All information is worth evaluating. I am not afraid of any information from any source, whether I previously agreed with any conclusions drawn, because I am confident in my reading comprehension and my own skepticism. This complaint is specifically about elitist tendencies masqueraded as impartiality that are rampant among veteran editors. My quote of yours above was to call attention to the fact that all editors, veteran or other wise, fall subject to letting their personal histories influence their speech to other editors and the way they interact with edits. Anyways, it might calm you down to hear me summarize my understanding of the origin. I believe reports that the wet market in wuhan was the primary location of spread of sars cov 2 in Wuhan. I believe the article published by the Wuhan researchers themselves that sars-cov-2 initially developed in wild bats. I also believe that article's following statement: "Simplot analysis showed that 2019-nCoV was highly similar throughout the genome to RaTG13 (Fig. 1c), with an overall genome sequence identity of 96.2%." I also believe the addendum to that article that states the Wuhan team did bring a field sampled virus, later confirmed to be RaTG13 , back to the Wuhan lab and published that data in 2016. Which means the Lab in Wuhan lab possessed highly related samples of sars viruses. I accept but find it not salient that RatG13 specifically is not sufficiently close enough to be implicated as an ancestor to Sars-cov-2. I do not know, and maybe never will know whether the line of transmission of Sars-cov-2 from wild bat to Wuhan wet market ever included a brief stay as a lab sample at a nearby virology lab. But to assert that encyclopedia readers are not to be trusted with the information that a lab analyzing closely related sars viruses could at some point have been involved with accidental escape is elitist at best. UserSwamp (talk) 22:42, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
References
- ^ Holmes EC, Goldstein SA, Rasmussen AL, Robertson DL, Crits-Christoph A, et al. (September 2021). "The origins of SARS-CoV-2: A critical review". Cell (Review). 184 (19): 4848–4856. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2021.08.017. PMC 8373617. PMID 34480864.
Under any laboratory escape scenario, SARS-CoV-2 would have to have been present in a laboratory prior to the pandemic, yet no evidence exists to support such a notion and no sequence has been identified that could have served as a precursor.
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