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> That, despite the authors claims, Covid-19 was clearly of zoological orgin by large scientific consensus, isn't true. Here's a recent survey of virologists a
by ZeroGravitas 3y ago
> That, despite the authors claims, Covid-19 was clearly of zoological orgin by large scientific consensus, isn't true.
Here's a recent survey of virologists and infectious disease epidemiologists, with a smaller proportion of biosafety/biosecurity professionals and
evolutionary geneticists.
> the goal of this survey was to conduct a rigorous, geographically
diverse, and anonymous survey of scientific experts regarding the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic
https://gcrinstitute.org/papers/069_covid-origin.pdf https://gcrinstitute.org/papers/069_covid-origin.pdf
They support the natural origin theory at roughly 4 to 1, not sure if you'd count that as a large scientific consensus but it's in the ballpark.
- baja_blast 3y agoYes but also 33% of those surveyed have heard of a fake study and less than 1/4 of them were aware of the DEFUSE proposal