# Flipping the Experts

There are three things i care about: - the right to privacy - freedom - the environment. Our Celebrity Scientists hijacked the last one to get people to give up the first two. I’ve got a *great craw* - but that was never gonna make it all the way down.

[Here’s the argument](https://www.indiatoday.in/programme/newstrack-with-rahul-kanwal/video/dr-ian-lipkin-dismisses-china-lab-theory-says-virus-came-from-bat-not-lab-1669524-2020-04-21) oft repeated by the Zoonati (espoused here by *Virus Hunter* (Lipkin)):

*32:30 I think that we’re seeing this (virus outbreaks) much more than we used to and this is the function of many things - deforestation - population migration - international travel - climate change.*

Apart from climate change - all of those have been going on since the Stone Age. (edit: actually, including climate change)   
Ok, I’ve got a theory - if you flip the script with Lipkin/Daszak-speak - you end up a lot loser to the truth. In the spirit of scientific experimentation, let's give it a spin:

<span style="color: #939;">32:30 I think that we’re seeing this (virus outbreaks) much more than we used to and this is the function of many things - scientists collecting viruses - scientists meddling with viruses - scientists having accidents with viruses.</span>

*Why do I think things could get worse? If we don’t change the ways in which we interact with our natural environment, we’re going to have this problem continuously.*   
<span style="color: #939;">Why do I think things could get worse? If we don’t change the ways in which scientists interact with our natural environment, we’re going to have this problem continuously.</span>

*We have international trade which means that something that starts in central Africa rapidly spreads around the world - just like this did, right?* (<span style="color: #939;">Ian, memo-to-self, Covid didn’t start in central Africa, right? How about this:)</span>

<span style="color: #939;">We have international trade which means that something that starts in Wuhan rapidly spreads around the world - just like this did, right?</span>

*We have people who can no longer 34:16 find protein so they wind up eating wild animals and becoming infected by those animals.*

<span style="color: #939;">We have scientists who can no longer 34:16 find funding from bio-terrorism fear-mongering, so they wind up trapping wild animals and becoming infected by those animals.</span>

*We have very wealthy people who like to keep exotic pets, which can infect animals as well - so we are a perfect storm for this - we need to change the way we interact with our natural environment. 34:39*

<span style="color: #939;">We have very wealthy scientists who like to experiment on exotic lab animals, which can infect lab workers as well - so we are a perfect storm for this - we need to change the way scientists interact with our natural environment. 34:39</span>

<span style="color: #939;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Cool! Wish i'd discovered this technique earlier - could've saved a lot of time spent on constructing detailed, referenced arguments to counter Zoonati drivel. </span></span>