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> Yet in computer simulations, the mutations in SARS-CoV-2 don't seem to work very well at helping the virus bind to human cells. If scientists had deliberately
by fairity 5y ago
> Yet in computer simulations, the mutations in SARS-CoV-2 don't seem to work very well at helping the virus bind to human cells. If scientists had deliberately engineered this virus, they wouldn't have chosen mutations that computer models suggest won't work. But it turns out, nature is smarter than scientists, and the novel coronavirus found a way to mutate that was better — and completely different— from anything scientists could have created, the study found.
The above is the primary takeaway from the report.
- Proven 5y agoThat was debunked in the Substack article by that ex-Nature guy. Also this article is 1 year old and its claimes have been debunked elsewhere as well. Someone reposting old misinformation. This week it was reported the laughable leftist fact checkers have been "fine tuning" their fake "facts" - based on science publications like TFA - from last year https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/wapo-head-fact-checker-glenn-kessler-heckled-over-lab-leak-flip-flop https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/wapo-head-fact-checker-gl...
- Zababa 5y ago> If scientists had deliberately engineered this virus, they wouldn't have chosen mutations that computer models suggest won't work. I'm not addressing the whole SARS-CoV-2 story but just this sentence. That seems like an incredibly naive view of "scientists". If you're trying to engineer a virus, erasing your traces is the most important thing. Testing things rejected by computer models in hope of finding one that works and thus would lead to skeptism in the scientific community could be a way to erase your traces.
- fairity 5y agoYea, agreed that it doesn't prove it wasn't man-made, but per baye's theorem, it decreases the likelihood.
- raarts 5y agoI don't buy this argument. If you look at how GoF research is performed, serial passage[1] is the usual method and in that case you just use what works, you don't 'choose' specific mutations. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_passage https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_passage