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[–]jamesK_3rd 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The Indian scientist that discovered similarities with hiv virus initially posted a quick paper citing his discoveries and essentially starting the discussion process.

Because of the title of his paper, a lot of SJW in the community stated this was misleading.

He retracted the paper on grounds that out might be easily misconstrued. If you read, he's under a lot of pressure to "come to the correct conclusions". In similar ways, a scientist or research fellow at places sick as universities cannot do studies which have a certain narrative, lest they lose funding, grants, and peer respect. Topics such as climate and transgenderism are forbidden unless a very Pro stance is taken.

His paper:

Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.30.927871v1.full.pdf

I am unsure this is a bioweapon. But the more they try to cover things up, the more it makes me question it.

[–]jamesK_3rd 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Of course, I'd avoid reddit anyhow of your looking for any truth.

People go to reddit are going there for their friends or to have their ego stroked, not because they're looking for answers.

[–]FormosaOolong 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Also, rigorous discussion and debate of both good and bad science is what science is all about! So if the authors were pre-publishing as a service to the wider community, essentially inviting fellow virologists and genetic specialists to critique their work for the benefit of all, shutting down discussion leans toward a crime against humanity. Whether or not their research has validity in some degree will never be discovered if the whole discussion is shut down just because some cannot even dare to entertain any idea that might label them as "conspiracy theorists."

There is a long history of bioweapons, and deployment onto citizens, so it's not really all that out-there to ponder it as a possibility. In fact it would be remiss not to, if we were interested in a thorogoing investigation.