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https://twitter.com/Arbuthnott/status/1667582815750307840“They were working with the 9 different Covid variants,” one of the investigators said. They believe one virus at the WIV was an even closer match to Covid-19 than RaTG13. “We are confident they were working on a closer unpublished variant — possibly collected in Mojiang,”
https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1599898792912105473That's why we devoted about half the book to examining the evidence for a natural spillover. If that evidence was strong we would have said so. If anything, our vested interest and natural bias, as keen supporters of science, was in that direction.
https://twitter.com/mattwridley/status/1599722332289134592"The pangolin data that had driven the whole process were a gigantic red herring. Far from being 99 percent similar to SARS-CoV2, the coronavirus found in pangolins was in fact even less similar than RaTG13, a coronavirus sequence the Chinese had already published."
https://twitter.com/mattwridley/status/1585915772701999104The steps in their argument (thread):
https://twitter.com/ydeigin/status/1554907570590175234Remember the canonical example of confirmation bias. Peter Wason gave people three numbers - 2, 4, 6 - and asked them to name another triplet that followed the same rule. Most people tried 8, 10, 12 or some other version of adding two.