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What would you like to know, Natalie? Do you have any other objections outside of the single tweet you've pulled from a thread of 30ish tweets?
@nattyover If you check the history books, you'll find that several science writers have covered this topic... theatlantic.com/science/archiv…
@nattyover Those glycosylation sites tell us that SARS2 was adapted in an immune system (aka it's another sign that it arose naturally)....
@nattyover That takeaway can be gleaned with a cursory look at the papers, hence the screenshots. (It's also a point well known to some of the loudest voices in the lab leak contingent.)
@nattyover But in the context of the thread, those studies are just additional examples of research pointing toward natural origins -- that are being omitted by the lab leakers.
@nattyover On Marc: Maybe you should ask him? Or perhaps, we should wonder why are we asking him at all?

Yes, Marc is a respected epidemiologist. But we're talking about virology, and virologists are continuously pointing out the scientific flaws in his assertions

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