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'Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus.'
by arcanus 7y ago
'Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus.'
- T-A 7y agoThey start out saying that, but keep reading and "clearly show" becomes "is improbable": "It is improbable that SARS-CoV-2 emerged through laboratory manipulation of a related SARS-CoV-like coronavirus. As noted above, the RBD of SARS-CoV-2 is optimized for binding to human ACE2 with an efficient solution different from those previously predicted. Furthermore, if genetic manipulation had been performed, one of the several reverse-genetic systems available for betacoronaviruses would probably have been used19. However, the genetic data irrefutably show that SARS-CoV-2 is not derived from any previously used virus backbone." Their argument boils down to "it doesn't look like previously published work" (that's me paraphrasing, not a quote).
- jacquesm 7y agoThose poor conspiracy nuts, they'll find a way to spin it. Nature is in the pay of 'them'.