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▲ cwmoore 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

This is a fun-to-think-about variant HN comment thread, thanks Dan.

▲ baxtr 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Scratch your head and you’ll release DNA-rich cellular material into the air. There, it will mingle with DNA from myriad other sources: your own and others’ exhalations and exfoliations, fragments of hair, feathers, excrement, pollen and spores, and microorganisms such as viruses and microalgae. This DNA, which can include segments that are tens of thousands of base pairs long, will then wander the air for perhaps a few days, often clinging to dust particles. It can travel distances that range from a few metres to several thousand.

▲ shevy-java 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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▲ dhruv3006 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Why is nature suddenly click bait - changing times I guess.

▲ cmos 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

As is the Ocean.

▲ tim333 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Cool.

I think they had to delete all the sequencing data from the Wuhan Institute of Virology so stuff in the air wouldn't show up.

▲ shevy-java 2 days ago | parent [-]

That was never a convincing argument, IMO. Just as US institutes would claim that China is responsible, by the same token the argument works on any other lab too - yet the media did not present in that way. Ever. That's not accurate reporting; that's an attempt at victim blaming. Next thing someone may do is give a powerpoint presentation about weapons of mass destruction in some far-away country ...

	▲	philipallstar 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Actually, the US did a lot to downplay the idea that the nearby lab in Wuhan that was doing gain of function research on coronaviruses was in any way involved, to the extent that you'd get shadow-banned on Twitter for mentioning it.
	▲	popopo73 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		`>Just as US institutes would claim that China is responsible, by the same token the argument works on any other lab too - yet the media did not present in that way. Ever. That's not accurate reporting; that's an attempt at victim blaming.` So your idea of accurate reporting is to apply whataboutisms?