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On 3/17/2025 8:40 PM, Bill Sloman wrote:

>> "Trust the science" actually means "Trust the scientists" which is not
>> at all the same thing.
> 
> It doesn't. Scientists disagree quite a lot, and people trained in 
> science are trained to read the literature and make up their own minds 
> about the relative merits of what has been published.
> 
> John Larkin is notorious for trusting what the climate change denial 
> propaganda machine has to say about the science involved.
> 
> The "scientists" who can be bribed to say what suits the climate change 
> denial propaganda machine, aren't even vaguely trustworthy, and Anthony 
> Watts - who John Larkin quotes a lot - hasn't even had any kind of 
> scientific training.
> 
> The people who like to push that lab leakage theory about the origin of 
> Covid-19 don't know much about science, but do have a political agenda.
> 

There's a train of thought among some academics like the author of the 
article that if virologists just let well enough alone and didn't bring 
strange bat viruses back to the lab to study, they would never pose any 
risk to humans.

Of course, to believe the idea that they don't pose any risk in the wild 
you kind of have to be a lab-leak conspiracy theorist to begin with.