On the question of whether covid-19 might’ve come from Europe.
TLDR it didn’t.
TLDR it didn’t.
https://twitter.com/michaelworobey/status/1424483875384958981
Also this is really how peer review should work. Open, honest and fair criticism of preprinted/published work. Now everyone can see what problems each study suffers from and decide for themselves whether they think the conclusions are well supported. Expertise is being shared.
On studies pointing to covid appearing in Europe earlier than Dec 2019, many somehow detect later variants (D614G) rather than the earliest form of SARS2.
This requires a virus endemic to South China/SE Asia to not only be able to time travel but also teleport across continents.
This requires a virus endemic to South China/SE Asia to not only be able to time travel but also teleport across continents.
https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1349163446143746052
SARS2 is pretty tricksy but time travel and teleportation thankfully do not yet feature in its repertoire.
Moreover if D614G had been detectable at a population level in Europe or US earlier in 2019, wouldn’t there have been an uncontrollable explosion of covid much earlier than the Dec 2019 Wuhan outbreak?
We’ve seen how bad it is in the West even when people are aware of the virus.
We’ve seen how bad it is in the West even when people are aware of the virus.
Due to the opacity of peer review and editorial investigations, one of the most famous papers suggesting 2019 covid in Europe is still online despite the journal saying since March 2021 that it is now under investigation.
https://twitter.com/ayjchan/status/1400486091141046272
Editors, the paper was accepted only one day after submission. You don’t need half a year to investigate.
Just look at the peer reviews.
1. Do they even exist?
2. Is the submitted manuscript different from the final publication?
Just look at the peer reviews.
1. Do they even exist?
2. Is the submitted manuscript different from the final publication?
… and I have just been informed that the editorial investigation came to nothing and there are no corrections needed for this study that was accepted one day after being received by the journal.
Not all peer review is equal. Especially the kind that takes only one day and the editors comes from the same institute as the authors.
https://twitter.com/ayjchan/status/1349169830558109696
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