I guess there's no stopping a small group of scientists who intend to keep forcing natural origin hypotheses even in the face of an extensive intelligence report due to release next week.
Please do not judge the entire scientific community by these few individuals' actions.
Please do not judge the entire scientific community by these few individuals' actions.
This pandemic has repeatedly shown that a small group of top experts may not understand what is happening. People at the top of their fields who said no evidence of human-to-human transmission, no evidence masks work, no evidence SARS2 spreads by air, no evidence of lab origin...
A large part of the problem is that these types of questions cannot be solved just by looking at the genome of a virus.
You need to have intel on what's happening on the ground. You need to have access to authentic data describing outbreaks.
You need to have intel on what's happening on the ground. You need to have access to authentic data describing outbreaks.
Yet, some scientists are pushing likelihoods based on the assumption that they know what scientists in another country were working on, that they know what has or hasn't been covered up in China, and essentially that they know or can predict what intel exists internationally.
Even China pulled out of their natural origin (multiple origins, cold chain #PopsicleOrigins) campaign a week ago.
Since then, they've been trying to find convoluted ways to make it sound like this virus came from an American lab instead of a Chinese lab.
Since then, they've been trying to find convoluted ways to make it sound like this virus came from an American lab instead of a Chinese lab.
https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1425080450633056261
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