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

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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.

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.

  • 7 people recommended it
  • 5 different months
  • 2 strong recommendations
  • first 2020, last 2021

What HN commenters said

  1. “Presents lab leak case against media narrative.”

    GillBates666, 2020-06 · Strong recommendation · in “Ignore the conspiracy theories: scientists know Covid-19 wasn't created in a lab”

  2. “Watch this though - - and it's very clear that it likely originated from the Wuhan lab”

    Argues Wuhan lab origin is clear from video.

    loceng, 2021-03 · Strong recommendation · in “The WHO-China search for the origins of the coronavirus”

  3. “Yuri Deigin wrote a good argument for that possibility.”

    Lab leak argued plausible, with Deigin's essay.

    nradov, 2020-06 · Recommendation · in “Officer of China’s People’s Liberation Army Arrested at LAX”

  4. “he had a very interesting conversation with a russian virologist who also thinks this is the case”

    Conversation with a Russian virologist on lab origin.

    nyolfen, 2020-12 · Recommendation · in “Israeli startup claims Covid-19 likely originated in a lab, willing to bet on it”

  5. “there has of yet been no refutation of the lab leak hypothesis”

    Lab leak hypothesis unrefuted, presented by Weinstein.

    not_a_moth, 2021-01 · Recommendation · in “An Uncommon Cold”

  6. “Here’s an episode of Bret’s podcast from June 2020 covering this in depth”

    Early podcast episode covering lab leak in depth.

    qrybam, 2021-06 · Recommendation · in “The lab-leak theory: inside the fight to uncover Covid-19’s origins”

  7. “He's been the canary in the coal mine on numerous issues surrounding COVID.”

    Podcast discussed deleted sequences and lab leak indicators.

    0-_-0, 2021-06 · Recommendation · in “Scientist finds early virus sequences that had been mysteriously deleted”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: lab leak, sars-cov-2, gain of function, furin site, covid origins

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