06-28-2021, 06:55 PM
pdq wrote:
[quote=PeterB]
[quote=pdq]
One thing I get from this article is this: if the virus _did_ escape from this lab (and I think the evidence for this is slim), it almost certainly represented something like an accidental infection of a worker by a naturally occurring SARS-type coronavirus that had been brought to the lab to study, and not a bioweapon made at the lab.
That last scenario has been rejected on multiple lines of evidence; she’s just the latest to add her two bits. Yet I bet if you surveyed the wingnuts in this country, that would be their top belief.
That last scenario has been rejected by... actual scientists/virologists, who looked at the SARS-CoV-2 genome and found no evidence that it had been bioengineered, and lots of evidence that it occurred naturally, probably starting out in a bat or pangolin: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9
Thank you - I appreciate your knowledge in this.
Here's some more info of interest:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/edit...275564.php
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/...speaks-out