1/ Dr. David Baltimore, the Nobel laureate who claimed there was a “smoking gun” supporting the lab-leak theory, now says he regrets using the phrase and doesn’t agree that it validates the lab-leak theory.
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2/ The now-famous "furin cleavage site" of SARS-CoV-2 doesn't prove the lab-leak theory either way: 
3/ There's nothing really special about the furin cleavage site:
4/ Is a lab accident possible? Yes.
But what's far far far more likely?
natural zoonotic spillover from animals into humans
The fact that we haven't yet identified the animal source means nothing.
It took us decades to do so for HIV; 14 years for SARS; still haven't for Ebola.
But what's far far far more likely?
natural zoonotic spillover from animals into humans
The fact that we haven't yet identified the animal source means nothing.
It took us decades to do so for HIV; 14 years for SARS; still haven't for Ebola.
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