That 2019 college paper about a lab leak sat online for 14 months with 3 citations
I was digging through old science blogs last week and found a post from a researcher in Wuhan warning about bat virus research back in 2019, and it barely got any replies. What got me was comparing the original thread (like 4 comments) to the 2021 version that got shared 50k times, the difference was just someone finally reading past the first paragraph. Has anyone else found one of these where the early version was actually way more careful than the thing that blew up later?