Bret Weinstein and Yuri Deigin: Did Covid-19 leak From a Lab?
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters shared it in 2020 and 2021 as an early, in-depth presentation of the lab-leak case, though it is a contested viewpoint.
What it is
Bret Weinstein and Yuri Deigin discuss the evidence for the hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 leaked from a lab, including the furin cleavage site and gain-of-function research. The conversation draws on Deigin's Medium article.
Recommended by 7 HN commenters across 5 different months, 2020 to 2021.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec GillBates666 · 2020-06 · on “Ignore the conspiracy theories: scientists know Covid-19 wasn't created in a lab”
[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?
Strong rec loceng · 2021-03 · 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 - [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.
Recommends nradov · 2020-06 · 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] [this video]
Recommends loceng · 2020-12 · 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: [this video]
Recommends nyolfen · 2020-12 · 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: [this video] here is an essay written by his guest: [LINK]
Recommends not_a_moth · 2021-01 · 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] [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.
Recommends qrybam · 2021-06 · 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: [this video] Edit: a word
Recommends 0-_-0 · 2021-06 · 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: [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: [this video]