re: #137 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I think this isn’t anti-intellectualism, per se. I think it’s a natural desire to make order out of chaos. Something that can’t be easily explained (whaddya mean someone ate a bat/pangolin/whatever and now a million people are sick and dying? That’s nuts!) in a 30 second elevator pitch slash advertisement is chaos. A lab based outbreak is easier to understand which makes it a more desirable cause.

I’m not sure I buy either one of those as “easier” to explain than the other

What makes the lab scenario easier than it’s like a contagious rabies?