Miller's claim rests on the assumption that the WIV would have published every virus it had collected. That's a facially odd claim--there's no research group in

Miller's claim rests on the assumption that the WIV would have published every virus it had collected. That's a facially odd claim--there's no research group in the world without unpublished work in progress, since even with no deliberate attempt to conceal, it takes time to write stuff up. We also know it to be specifically false here, since Deigin and some other authors found an unpublished merbecovirus in contamination of published datasets from agricultural sequencing on equipment shared with the WIV: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36865340/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36865340/ That merbecovirus is unrelated to SARS-CoV-2; but with unequivocal evidence that the WIV had at least one unpublished virus, it's hard to reject the possibility they had two.