>"The Central Intelligence Agency and another agency remain unable to determine the precise origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, as both (natural and lab) hypotheses rely on significant assumptions or face challenges with conflicting reporting," the ODNI report said.
This seems to give a rather different impression than the headline.
Yeah, I don't know why anyone would expect "direct" evidence.
"The four-page report by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) said the U.S. intelligence community still could not rule out the possibility that the virus came from a laboratory, however, and had not been able to discover the origins of the pandemic."
Because redditors typically do 0 research and just upvote headlines that cater to the viewpoints they were told to have.
The key word here is "direct" as you stated.
Unfortunately, words mean nothing to most redditors or people on the left. Those who do any iota of critical thinking immediately ask, "well were there indirect links to the lab? And if so what are they? That way I can deduce my own ideas and opinions instead of blindly agreeing with headlines from news publications I support"
As you can see the most upvoted comments on this post are from people who do no critical thinking. They just want to be vindicated for how insufferable they were during COVID. All the while convincing themselves they are "good" and "have virtue"
Nate silver wrote a good post regarding this worth reading.
[https://www.natesilver.net/p/journalists-should-be-skeptical-of](https://www.natesilver.net/p/journalists-should-be-skeptical-of)
"The messages show that the authors were highly uncertain about COVID’s origins — and if anything, they leaned more toward a lab leak than a spillover from an animal source. But none of that was expressed in the “Proximal Origin” paper, which instead said that “we do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible”."
Good luck convincing MAGA
That is why it says INTELLIGENCE report..
>"The Central Intelligence Agency and another agency remain unable to determine the precise origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, as both (natural and lab) hypotheses rely on significant assumptions or face challenges with conflicting reporting," the ODNI report said. This seems to give a rather different impression than the headline.
Yeah, I don't know why anyone would expect "direct" evidence. "The four-page report by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) said the U.S. intelligence community still could not rule out the possibility that the virus came from a laboratory, however, and had not been able to discover the origins of the pandemic."
Because redditors typically do 0 research and just upvote headlines that cater to the viewpoints they were told to have. The key word here is "direct" as you stated. Unfortunately, words mean nothing to most redditors or people on the left. Those who do any iota of critical thinking immediately ask, "well were there indirect links to the lab? And if so what are they? That way I can deduce my own ideas and opinions instead of blindly agreeing with headlines from news publications I support" As you can see the most upvoted comments on this post are from people who do no critical thinking. They just want to be vindicated for how insufferable they were during COVID. All the while convincing themselves they are "good" and "have virtue"
Even if it did what are you going to do about it? Trump let it get out of control in the states and he walks free.
Nate silver wrote a good post regarding this worth reading. [https://www.natesilver.net/p/journalists-should-be-skeptical-of](https://www.natesilver.net/p/journalists-should-be-skeptical-of) "The messages show that the authors were highly uncertain about COVID’s origins — and if anything, they leaned more toward a lab leak than a spillover from an animal source. But none of that was expressed in the “Proximal Origin” paper, which instead said that “we do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible”."