[datricker]

They could have just accidentally leaked it from their lab. That would be embarrassing enough, I suspect.

Not like thats ever happened before

OH DEAR GOD!

"But worries surround the Chinese lab, too. The SARS virus has escaped from high-level containment facilities in Beijing multiple times, notes Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist at Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey. "

Sorry for shouting at yah rightwingcrazy but note the date.

[rightwingcrazy]

“The SARS virus has escaped from high-level containment facilities in Beijing multiple times”

Oops!

The reason I brought up this scenario is because there have been multiple attempts to absolve that laboratory based on analysis of the structure of the virus. But obviously, even if it can be proven that this particular viral strain came directly from a bat, that invites the question of where the bat came from.