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labster
on Jan 26, 2025
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CIA now favors lab leak theory to explain Covid's ...
You just set an arbitrary bar that that is higher for the lab leak based on an “everybody knows” argument. That’s not science, it’s faith.
strangecasts
on Jan 26, 2025
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Prior probability estimates
are not part of science?
labster
on Jan 27, 2025
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Prior probability estimates of p = 0.083 are not extraordinary. As the sibling says one out of twelve past pandemics was a known lab leak.
strangecasts
on Jan 27, 2025
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Okay, but your objection was requiring more evidence for the less likely assertion constituted an "arbitrary bar", you cannot argue that and quote _an arbitrary estimate by another commenter_
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