[hereforphone]

Awhile back there was an article on the front page of HN which seemed to support the lab leak hypothesis. This was before that hypothesis gained traction. I checked back shortly thereafter and it was gone. I went through the history (scrolled through pages) and couldn't find it.

Maybe it was a BS / questionable article. I don't know. But it seems we were eager to squash that line of thinking early on, whereas now it's at least debatable.

This is why I'm suspicious of moderation.

[heavyset_go]

There are about a dozen[1] HN submissions from February 2020 alone about a potential lab leak.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=4&prefix=true&que...

[munawwar]

Was it linked to this one? https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-...

[hereforphone]

No idea

[baq]

imagine the bullshit people submit when there's no moderation.

[hereforphone]

That's also true, and that's the problem that has yet to be solved IMO. How do you separate the wheat from the chaff? As far as I can tell it currently involves a lot of personal opinion and prejudice, and that may be unavoidable at the moment.