Quote Originally Posted by drillerpie View Post
I think anyone who doesn't consider it a serious possibility is burying their heads in the sand.

Even the Guardian has backpedalled from calling it 'Donald Trump's racist conspiracy theory' to talking about it as a very realistic hypothesis.

I don't have time to look for it now but if anyone can post a link to Sam Harris's podcast from a few months ago on the topic, it makes a very compelling case.

In case anyone wants to head that off by saying the sources are not credible, Sam Harris is a pro-vaccine ultra rationalist and one of his guests is an acclaimed science writer and ex member of the House of Lords who sat on scientific select committees.
Don't disagree with that. It's a possibility that shouldn't be completely discounted, though there's no direct evidence for it at the moment and nothing in the virus that points to genetic engineering.

My point was just that the theory that it might be a lab leak is not widely accepted by scientists, or even anywhere close.

But I definitely agree that the mood music around it has changed over the years in exactly the way that drillerpie describes, and it's now taken more seriously.