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<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As long as you have problems posting, I would recommend using a \u201cthrowaway\u201d account to do your posting so you never lose your main account. A few months ago, I actually got 2 of my \u201cthrowaway\u201d accounts UNBANNED. It is cool when you end up gaining accounts instead of losing them.<\/p>\n<p>S timeline but they almost never complain recently.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The weekend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2025\/jan\/26\/cia-now-backs-lab-leak-theory-to-explain-origins-of-covid-19?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">release<\/a> of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) report favouring a laboratory leak as the likely origin of COVID-19 \u2013 albeit with \u201clow confidence\u201d \u2013 has reignited a vitriolic debate.<\/p>\n<p>On the one side of the divide are those who argue that SARS-CoV2, the virus causing COVID-19, originated from a lab leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) that was studying coronaviruses in bats.<\/p>\n<p>Some researchers who favour the lab-leak thesis argue that the virus contains unusual features that indicate it may have been genetically modified by humans. These focus on the virus\u2019s furin cleavage site, a strange feature on the spike protein of the virus that is not present in other coronaviruses, that cast doubt on whether the virus had evolved naturally.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/cia-report-reignites-covid-19-origins-debate\">Continue reading \u201cCIA Report Reignites COVID-19 Origins Debate\u201d | ><\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As long as you have problems posting, I would recommend using a \u201cthrowaway\u201d account to do your posting so you never lose your main account. A few months ago, I actually got 2 of my \u201cthrowaway\u201d accounts UNBANNED. It is cool when you end up gaining accounts instead of losing them. S timeline but they [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}