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allovernow
This is delving into conspiracy theory territory, but the wealth of circumstantial evidence, in the form of related researcher affiliations, past publications, inconsistencies in Chinese media reporting, and suspicious Google maps manipulation, as outlined in the article, is damning.
dekhn
It is exceptionally irresponsible to make claims like this.
allovernow
If the evidence is comprehensive and solid, at what point does it become responsible (or necessary) to do so?
dekhn
when the evidence is comprehensive and solid. The medium post is basically 9/11 truther-class speculation.
allovernow
How does a virus leaking from a laboratory even approach the ridiculousness of a 9/11 conspiracy theory when cases of e.g. SARS have been confirmed to have leaked from labs just like this one?

This article just establishes strong indicators that the virus was under research at the lab - that alone is perfectly plausible and requires no conspiracy. You don't have to take all the facts in the article at face value but the basic idea is plausible.