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strangecasts
on Jan 26, 2025
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CIA now favors lab leak theory to explain Covid's ...
Prior probability estimates
are not part of science?
labster
on Jan 27, 2025
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Prior probability estimates of p = 0.083 are not extraordinary. As the sibling says one out of twelve past pandemics was a known lab leak.
strangecasts
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Okay, but your objection was requiring more evidence for the less likely assertion constituted an "arbitrary bar", you cannot argue that and quote _an arbitrary estimate by another commenter_
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