Resolves to YES
- if "gain-of-function" appears on COVID-19 - Wikipedia
in conjunction with "research"
- if "gain-of-function" appears on Investigations into the origin of COVID-19 - Wikipedia and "laboratory incident" is assessed as "possible" by an eminent organization
- gain-of-function research is not directly rejected in the context where it appears
- if contradictory views are presented by other parties are presented separately that is OK
- this holds true for more than a month cumulatively.
Otherwise resolves to NO on 1/1/2025
As "eminent organizations" are considered:
- the governments of the United States or China
- WHO
- The Lancet
If necessary I will review the edit history to determine the duration any statisfactory statement have been published and sum up the individual times each version of the page was up.
If Investigations into the origin of COVID-19 - Wikipedia gets renamed, split up or merge I will use my best judgement to determine which pages to count as successors.
hm I don't think there's a definitive answer. "The situation has also reignited a debate over gain-of-function research, although the intense political rhetoric surrounding the issue has threatened to sideline serious inquiry over policy in this domain." and "There is no evidence SARS-CoV-2 existed in any laboratory prior to the pandemic, or that any suspicious biosecurity incidents happened in any laboratory" and "The COVID-19 lab leak theory, or lab leak hypothesis, is the idea that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, came from a laboratory. This claim is highly controversial"
I think it mentions the gain of function and lab leak theory while saying it's a possible scenario but also just completely dismisses it.