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So this is the very beginning of an argument. "Serious virologists" isn't proof. Which virologists think it's natural, and which think it's unnatural? Now le
by loceng 5y ago
So this is the very beginning of an argument.
"Serious virologists" isn't proof.
Which virologists think it's natural, and which think it's unnatural?
Now lets see the data and thorough reasoning by each, and see the rebuttals of each for their opposition's reasoning, etc.
Until this is laid out clearly it's all shallow discussion - that no one should blindly trust or believe.
The above is the scientific process, method.
There clearly isn't consensus yet.
- ajross 5y ago> Which virologists think it's natural, and which think it's unnatural? Literally no one, including the authors of this paper, contends the sequence is "unatural".
- loceng 5y agoAre you meaning to say natural or unnatural?
- dapids 5y agoWhat do you think? Kinda a pedantic response for a spelling mistake.
- peteradio 5y agoBoth are 1 letter off from the presumed correct word: unatural + n == correctly spelled unnatural unatural - u == correctly spelled natural How the hell are you supposed to guess as if the context of viral sequencing is somehow easy to parse correctly?
- loceng 5y agoSeriously? Is this the quality of discussion HN is regularly becoming? You want me to make an assumption? Is that how you operate in conversation - assumptions to fill in the gaps when something isn't clear? You realize that their saying "natural" or "unnatural" completely changes what they're saying to the polar opposite, right? So now clarity is pedantic? Seriously? If HN had subreddits there'd be one similar to /r/WatchRedditDie
- IncRnd 5y agoIt's not an assumption for people who read the article. You'd know what the authors were claiming - natural, unatural, or unnatural.
- yxwvut 5y agoThere are arguments from improbability in the article that rely on implicit assumptions that are obviously wrong once made explicit, akin to a creationist arguing for the improbability of the human genome's complexity as though it arose like a shuffled deck of cards.