Why David Relman and his colleagues told the world that we need to investigate both of COVID-19’s origin stories: “Listen, despite all this yakking, we actually don’t know a whole lot based on hard data. We have a lot of assumptions, but..very little data"
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"[Some scientists] violated the principles of scientific investigation by saying, “Despite the fact that we don’t have much of an evidentiary basis for saying any of this, we’re going to tell you how we think this all went down.”"
"their assumption that because we haven’t heard of anything closer, there can’t be anything closer, is flawed. They continue to say that because we don’t see anything closer in a lab, it couldn’t have come from a lab."
"The problem is that you’re assuming that you know about everything that’s in the lab. I mean, all of us have unpublished data, so why would you assume that you know of everything that they could have had to work with?"
" scientists who claim that it couldn’t have come from a lab also fail to recognize the possibility of an accident during efforts to grow viruses directly from bat samples."
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