Quote Originally Posted by upthemaggies View Post
I think it's widely accepted now that it did come out of a lab, aside from the New York Times running a story earlier this year based on a garbage paper that's been thoroughly debunked as totally unscientific.
To have a virus of this type occur in nature and move from animal to human and then immediately spread like wildfire with no evolutionary process involved is apparently ridiculously low, that's why they've been doing the gain of function research, to speed that process up, in the area of China that hardly anybody disagrees this virus arose from, naturally or otherwise. I've listened to discussions on this and I'm quite satisfied that the nature theory was an attempt at a cover up. It's now a question of how it got out the lab, not if.
No, it's not widely accepted among reputable scientists that the virus came from a lab. That's absolutely not the scientific consensus.