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German Physicist professor says evidence points to Covid escaped from lab
- dominik-2020 6y agoEnglish paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349302406_Studie_zum_Ursprung_der_Coronavirus-Pandemie https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349302406_Studie_zu...
- pts_ 6y agoPhysicist professor.
- gus_massa 6y agoAutotranslation: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.uni-hamburg.de%2Fnewsroom%2Fpresse%2F2021%2Fpm8.html https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=auto&tl=en&u=h... > The study was carried out from January 2020 to December 2020. [...] It does not provide any highly scientific evidence, but does provide numerous and serious evidence: Even the press release of the university acknowledges that It does not provide any highly scientific evidence. > The study is published at: http://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.31754.80323 http://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.31754.80323 . Note that this is a link to a preprint in ResearchGate, not a peer review article. This has the same checks levels than a blog post in WordPress. It is "published" but essentially anyone can publish there whatever they want.
- emrox 6y agohis sources are basically YouTube and other unproven articles, mostly from far right extremist sites. German truth check article for that one: https://www.volksverpetzer.de/uncategorized/uni-hamburg-unwissenschaftliche-these/ https://www.volksverpetzer.de/uncategorized/uni-hamburg-unwi...
- swagnerd 6y agoWithin one day of the press release this has drawn so much negative attention in Germany that this "study" became a major embarrassment for the university and its press department. Now they are mostly concerned with damage limitation...