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This is a great example of how misinformation spreads. All of the speculation comes from a single non peer reviewed paper, which had literally one data point.
by knzhou 7y ago
This is a great example of how misinformation spreads.
All of the speculation comes from a single non peer reviewed paper, which had literally one data point. That paper was posted to a preprint server where scientists could comment on it. And the first comment was somebody doing a quick followup study with 100x more data, which found no significant difference.
Source: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.26.919985v1 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.26.919985v1
- allovernow 7y agoWhat you're saying isn't entirely untrue, but there has also been at least one other paper from about 10 years ago floating around which, following SARS, looked at genetic markers for ACE2 receptors and found that they are significantly overrepresented in Han Chinese and Japanese genes. So there is still some credibility to the speculation.
- rolph 7y agothis preprint needs a pass with occams chainsaw to get rid of some loaded terms that verbally modify the data