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The New NASA Chief Claims COVID-19 Might Have 'Come From a Lab'
In a bizarre video conference, the new NASA Chief hinted that the COVID-19 coronavirus may have 'come from a lab'. But so far, there is zero evidence.
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Former Democratic Florida Senator and newly-appointed Administrator at NASA Bill Nelson made bizarre comments about China, the COVID-19 crisis, and national security during a virtual event, intimating that the coronavirus may have leaked from a lab, according to an initial series of tweets from The Verge reporter Joey Roulette.
It's tremendously important to take this allegation with a grain of salt, since, without evidence, assuming China is somehow to blame for the global pandemic is not a very scientific thing to do.
NASA Administrator Nelson alleges a 'lab leak of COVID-19'
Former Sen. Nelson referenced unofficial reports alleging that the COVID-19 coronavirus could have come from a lab in the Wuhan Institute of Virology, according to Roulette's tweets, which describe Nelson suggesting that the United States should "watch the Chinese."
"They're starting to get very aggressive" in space, said Nelson, bafflingly, according to Roulette's tweets. "We have to be concerned... it's nothing to snooze at and ignore". Okay, stop. While it's not impossible for the coronavirus to have grown and leaked from an experimental lab in Wuhan, China's expansion into space has no bearing on the likelihood of accidentally triggering a global pandemic. Even if the country's space endeavors are described as "aggressive". But, as a growing collective of scientists is saying on the matter, absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.
However, we can suspend disbelief of a lab link to the COVID-19 crisis, while still accepting that there is no evidence conclusively pointing to a lab as the origin of the global pandemic. And, supposing the virus was leaked from a Wuhan lab, we may never have physical proof, since microorganisms are naturally short-lived. Additionally, it's hard to imagine any scientist, in China or anywhere, intentionally allowing such a radical virus to escape the sanitized confines of an experimental lab.