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On the lab-leak theory, the current state of opinion among experts is somewhat different from a few years ago. You seem not to be aware of that. On the Gaza issue, I can hardly be bothered to get into it, it's impossible to have a rational discussion about this subject (which I find deeply sad). Suffice to say that a lot of people disagree with your view (including me? I dunno - who cares?). The role of Wikipedia is to describe that discussion calmly, not to bark at readers that they're wrong and should correct their wrongthink.
"If we prove that the sky is blue, but I say it's red, Wikipedia should say the sky is purple"
What is currently happening in Gaza is a genocide, by exact definition of the word. Nobody contests that, and even the UN has called it genocide.
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/israel-has-committed-genocide-gaza-strip-un-commission-finds
The Covid lab leak is also a conspiracy theory, and no reputable scientist doubts it. The latest reports about it have come from the Trump administration taking control of government websites to post misinformation. They also said climate change doesn't exist and vaccines and tylenol cause autism, which is another conspiracy that has been proven to be false. One should not give credibility to such articles.
Yes, yes. The very founder of Wikipedia agrees with me on these issues (specifically, what I wrote, not the extraneous anecdotes you added), not with you (plural). It never ceases to amaze me how out of touch with mainstream opinion, how extremist basically, the user base of Lemmy is.
When you say founder of Wikipedia do you mean the one who still actively involved or the one guy who was involved for a little while 20 years ago and is now a giant right-wing fuck nut.