[nocturnial]

I never said the US was trying to buy it for exclusive access, if that is the conspiracy theory you're alluding to. You need to bring it up with the one I replied to. They were making those claims, not me.

It's called a strawman's argument. You falsely claim something your opponent said and before you know it, everyone believes it.

[theferalrobot]

>I never said the US was trying to buy it for exclusive access

You didn't personally, but the article you posted did.

[madez]

The grandparent of your comment wasn't made from the same account as yours, so unless you use multiple accounts, I was not referring to you.

The conspiracy theory is that the German government conspired to spread a lie.

[theferalrobot]

>The conspiracy theory is that the German government conspired to spread a lie.

Are you on the wrong post? I never said they were spreading lies?

The only thing the German government did was confirm they and the US government were both in negotiations with CoreVac. They did NOT state that the US was looking for exclusive rights.

None of this goes against my initial post that this is a completely unsubstantiated article.

Edit: You can't cite the news as your source for the news, especially when the news itself says it is unconfirmed.

[madez]

I quote from the article: "US President Trump is attempting to entice a German lab to develop a vaccine exclusively for the US, a German newspaper reported."

You are sharing the conspiracy theory that the Trump administration did not in fact try to secure exclusive access to the vaccine.

[theferalrobot]

I don’t think you understand the term conspiracy theory nor do you understand how the burden of proof works.

I have already given many credible sources showing why your claim is false, the hacker news mods have removed these articles multiple times (including this very post). You have provided an unsubstantiated claim with no evidence. An extraordinary claim requires extraordinary evidence.

[madez]

Here is a source that might be more acceptable for your palate: https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-confirms-that-donald...

[theferalrobot]

Which is reporting on the initial article which again just states that Germany said the US was trying to invest in the company, not that they were looking for an exclusive arrangement. Show me where Germany confirmed that the US was looking for an exclusive arrangement, we have multiple people saying this was not the case.