(August 31, 2021 at 12:52 am)HappySkeptic Wrote: No, the GOP didn't conclude that it came from a lab. It is more like Trump's "some people are saying ...".
Then let's then wait for the conclusion since we are obviously not experts.
And, what a word game: GOP didn't conclude that it came from the Chinese lab but puts blame on it.
Quote:Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee released a report on Monday blaming the COVID-19 outbreak on a Chinese lab leak — a theory that has been gaining popularity but has yet to gain the support of the US intelligence community.
While the original report focused mainly on China's role in downplaying the outbreak, the addendum included details from records released in the past year to draw the conclusion that the virus was accidentally released from a Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) laboratory.
Below are highlights from the report. It should be noted that the staff report is only a hypothesis based on open source records.
https://www.businessinsider.com/house-re...eak-2021-8
And the main problem is the Chinese system of government which is by nature very secretive and which in turn is great for conspiracy nuts to pin on it whatever they want.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"