In comments, I find it funny how people disagree on the meaning of “evidence”.
Scott: “All the so-called ‘evidence’ [for covid lab leak] has been refuted.”
...received a link to ACX article, with quoted “the short version is that they were doing lots of gain of function research [...] The market is unlikely to be the origin of the pandemic, because the original Lineage A strain wasn’t found there [...] The most likely explanation for all these facts is that WIV went ahead and did the gain-of-function research they said they were going to do”
Scott: “I don’t think you know the meaning of the term “evidence”. It’s doesn’t mean “speculation based on no facts.”″
In comments, I find it funny how people disagree on the meaning of “evidence”.
Scott: “All the so-called ‘evidence’ [for covid lab leak] has been refuted.”
...received a link to ACX article, with quoted “the short version is that they were doing lots of gain of function research [...] The market is unlikely to be the origin of the pandemic, because the original Lineage A strain wasn’t found there [...] The most likely explanation for all these facts is that WIV went ahead and did the gain-of-function research they said they were going to do”
Scott: “I don’t think you know the meaning of the term “evidence”. It’s doesn’t mean “speculation based on no facts.”″
As usual, Eliezer wrote something relevant a decade ago: “Scientific Evidence, Legal Evidence, Rational Evidence”.