It doesn't dismiss the other explanations, but argues that they are probably less likely than the current narrative would suggest: > “In a sense it is natural.

It doesn't dismiss the other explanations, but argues that they are probably less likely than the current narrative would suggest: > “In a sense it is natural. But the natural processes have most likely been accelerated in a laboratory,” he explains. “It’s also possible for a virus to attain these properties in nature, but it’s not likely. If the mutations had happened in nature, we would have most likely seen that the virus had attracted other properties through mutations, not just properties that help the virus to attach itself to human cells.”