There are some valid criticisms of virology, but the average critic cannot handle any actual scientific discussion about it without breaking down and calling you satan. Makes me only more skeptical if such dumb rubes are believing this.
They make a good point that electron microscope images can't prove the function of what is photographed without more analysis.
I haven't heard that Polio virus was built from scratch, that is interesting.
I usually look to the fact that scientists are able to engineer viruses to do what they want at this point. So clearly they have figured them out and know how to use them. Then "no virus" people will say "oh those are exoxomes that can send signals between organisms", but why would those signals include small pox? That seems stupid.
My understanding is that they used massive parallel sequencing to some (non isolated) sample.
Like looking at a bowl of food and saying Yep, there's some spaghetti in there.
You haven't isolated the pasta monster, but you can cite evidence that it's in there.
There are some valid criticisms of virology, but the average critic cannot handle any actual scientific discussion about it without breaking down and calling you satan. Makes me only more skeptical if such dumb rubes are believing this.
You have electron microscope images of viruses.
The Polio virus has been re-constructed from scratch.
They make a good point that electron microscope images can't prove the function of what is photographed without more analysis.
I haven't heard that Polio virus was built from scratch, that is interesting.
I usually look to the fact that scientists are able to engineer viruses to do what they want at this point. So clearly they have figured them out and know how to use them. Then "no virus" people will say "oh those are exoxomes that can send signals between organisms", but why would those signals include small pox? That seems stupid.
I'm getting "no isolated virus" people --- which could, still be, very well true.
As the story gets re-told it becomes no virus.
It's scary
IMO that's a bioweapon.
I think a handful of viruses have passed most of Koch's postulates