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Bret Weinstein and Yuri Deigin: Did Covid-19 leak From a Lab?

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Bret Weinstein and Yuri Deigin discuss the genetic and circumstantial evidence supporting the hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 originated from a lab.

Yuri Deigin and Bret Weinstein Discuss the evidence for the SARS-CoV-2 lab-leak hypothesis. Find his Medium article here: medium.com/@yurideigin/lab-made-cov2-genealogy-through-the-l… Like this content? Subscribe to the channel, like this video, follow us on twitter (@BretWeinstein, @ydeigin), and consider supporting me on Patreon or Paypal. Theme Music: Thank you to Martin Molin of Wintergatan for providing us the rights to use their excellent music.

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What people say. Shared as an early, detailed discussion of the lab-leak hypothesis and gain-of-function research.

GillBates666in Hacker News • Recommends

On “Ignore the conspiracy theories: scientists know Covid-19 wasn't created in a lab”

link to this video How does mainstream media keep their credibility? A considerable portion of the population is just ok with being lied too I guess. Shrug. At the very least we should be investigating all possibilities in regards to the origin of the virus. China has a terrible track record with viruses. They leaked SARS1 twice. The first largely publicized cluster is right next to the coronavirus lab there. Now we have a ton of genetic evidence that can't be hidden. To what length will the media go to hide this and redirect the conversation?
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nradovin Hacker News • Recommends

On “Officer of China’s People’s Liberation Army Arrested at LAX”

There is no proof that SARS-CoV-2 escaped from a lab, however it remains a plausible hypothesis. Yuri Deigin wrote a good argument for that possibility. link link to this video
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locengin Hacker News • Recommends

On “Israeli startup claims Covid-19 likely originated in a lab, willing to bet on it”

It would seem if you have a deep understanding and look at the actual structure of COVID-19 - then there are multiple markers that it was manipulated, if you believe Yuri Deigin knows what he's talking about: link to this video
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nyolfenin Hacker News • Recommends

On “Israeli startup claims Covid-19 likely originated in a lab, willing to bet on it”

specifically he is a specialist in bat biology, but perhaps more relevantly he had a very interesting conversation with a russian virologist who also thinks this is the case: link to this video here is an essay written by his guest: link
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not_a_mothin Hacker News • Recommends

On “An Uncommon Cold”

> The covid-19 virus isn't the first coronavirus to jump from animals to humans Sigh, while controversial to state, there has of yet been no refutation of the lab leak hypothesis presented by scientists like Brett Weinstein 1 1 link to this video Wanting to discuss virus origins should not be political or knee jerk censored. At the very surface, natural origins next to a P4 lab doing gain of function coronavirus research is already asking a lot from us.
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locengin Hacker News • Recommends

On “The WHO-China search for the origins of the coronavirus”

There's tons of propaganda trying to diminish the likelihood of a lab leak (purposeful or a mistake). Watch this though - link to this video - and it's very clear that it likely originated from the Wuhan lab (they were studying those bats originating from 200 miles away + multiple markers in the genes showing human intervention/editing) - and that what's being promoted by these orgs into mainstream is gaslighting.
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qrybamin Hacker News • Recommends

On “The lab-leak theory: inside the fight to uncover Covid-19’s origins”

For anyone who’s listened to Bret Weinstein’s podcast from early on in the pandemic, “gain of function research” will be a familiar term. Great to see this hypothesis getting traction in mainstream media. What’s still crazy to me is how quickly things were explained away and how strongly the directly related scientific community said the hypothesis was “fringe”. Here’s an episode of Bret’s podcast from June 2020 covering this in depth: link to this video Edit: a word
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0-_-0in Hacker News • Recommends

On “Scientist finds early virus sequences that had been mysteriously deleted”

If I remember correctly, the disappearance of these sequences was discussed more than a year ago in Bret Weinstein's podcast, among many other indicators of a lab leak: link to this video He's been the canary in the coal mine on numerous issues surrounding COVID. edit: listen from 30:43, also from 25:11: link to this video
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fsckboyin Hacker News • Mentions

On “The media's lab leak fiasco”

Not just the media, folks, also the rest of our "sense making apparatus". Wikipedia has been suppressing lab leak discussion, and still to this moment will not allow the old Lab Leak Hypothesis page back. It still redirects to a declared "Misinformation!" page link And guess where else lab leak was suppressed? Here on HN. Yes, dang, you suppressed discussion of a perfectly reasonable hypothesis many times. So, while I have your attention, the real problem vis a vis Covid19 is not the lab leak. The real problem is "gain of function" research, using gene splicing to make more virulent-to-humans pathogens. And don't read into anything I'm saying, please pay attention to literally what I say h…
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lodiin Hacker News • Mentions

On “Linus Torvalds on mRNA Vaccines”

> "Lab-leak" is non-sensical in all forms which don't begin with "lab evolved/bioengineered"... That's exactly the allegation circa March 2020 though: scientists collect various bat-borne coronaviruses (e.g. RaTG13) in Yunnan province around 2013, evolve one of them at the Wuhan Institute of Virology though gain-of-function research, and then due to lax safety protocols end up accidentally leaking an evolved virus in late 2019. For example, see this podcast from a year ago: link to this video
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