I’m sure he’ll go on many podcasts, Fox News segments, and have many NY Times editorials over the coming weeks describing how he’s been silenced…
www.theatlantic.com
No one is mentioning it because this is a news story for morons. Chinese government officials uploaded some "proof" to a Chinese government database a few days ago and international researchers found the "proof" in the Chinese database, except it isn't actually proof because no one can find any SARS-CoV-2 in the species that was the supposed carrier even today, after SARS-CoV-2 is everywhere. This is Chinese propaganda. Even the article straight out says there is zero actual proof in any of this.Weird. I wonder why those “lab leak” theorists from a few days ago didn’t report this? After all, we want to get down to the truth of this, right?
View attachment 14042The Strongest Evidence Yet That an Animal Started the Pandemic
A new analysis of genetic samples from China appears to link the pandemic’s origin to raccoon dogs.
This is nothing but Chinese propaganda and you shut down the schools causing massive damage to children's social health and learning loss.
I am seeing quite a few stories about it today. But, I’m not a virologist, not really in a position to make a call, unlike an expert like yourself(?), but here are the three authors. I’m not qualified to refer to them as “morons”, but, since you consider the news something that is aimed at morons, perhaps you do consider the authors of the study morons as well.
www.science.org
So the study involved here is as yet unpublished. The Atlantic first reported on it, but that means paywall, as is the case with The NY Times as well, here’s a free copy of the Times…“Andersen adds that he does not expect the new data to convince everyone that the virus originated at the market. He suspects some people may interpret the new information to mean simply that humans infected with SARS-CoV-2 transmitted the virus to the animals at the market.
Joel Wertheim, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, San Diego, who is collaborating with Andersen and others in the analyses of the newly discovered sequences, says some critics of the spillover hypothesis want more conclusive evidence than science can possibly deliver. “You can’t observe the zoonotic transmission of a novel virus from animals to humans,” Wertheim says. “We’re just never going to get that level of data.”
Science | AAAS
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Occam's razor analysis would lean toward the wild variant as well, since we know this has happened many many times, the likelihood is that is where this one originated as well. Obviously that doesn't play as well in the new cycles or in conspiracist circles, but hey, logic is just a word.So the study involved here is as yet unpublished. The Atlantic first reported on it, but that means paywall, as is the case with The NY Times as well, here’s a free copy of the Times…
New Data Links Pandemic’s Origins to Raccoon Dogs at Wuhan Market
An international team of virus experts said on Thursday that they had found genetic data from a market in Wuhan,
“The jumbling together of genetic material from the virus and the animal does not prove that a raccoon dog itself was infected. And even if a raccoon dog had been infected, it would not be clear that the animal had spread the virus to people. Another animal could have passed the virus to people, or someone infected with the virus could have spread the virus to a raccoon dog.
But the analysis did establish that raccoon dogs — fluffy animals that are related to foxes and are known to be able to transmit the coronavirus — deposited genetic signatures in the same place where genetic material from the virus was left, three scientists involved in the analysis said. That evidence, they said, was consistent with a scenario in which the virus had spilled into humans from a wild animal.
A report with the full details of the international research team’s findings has not yet been published. Their analysis was first reported by The Atlantic.
The new evidence is sure to provide a jolt to the debate over the pandemic’s origins, even if it does not resolve the question of how it began.
In recent weeks, the so-called lab leak theory, which posits that the coronavirus emerged from a research lab in Wuhan, has gained traction thanks to a new intelligence assessmentfrom the U.S. Department of Energy and hearings led by the new Republican House leadership.
But the genetic data from the market offers some of the most tangible evidence yet of how the virus could have spilled into people from wild animals outside a lab. It also suggests that Chinese scientists have given an incomplete account of evidence that could fill in details about how the virus was spreading at the Huanan market.
Jeremy Kamil, a virologist at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport who was not involved in the study, said the findings showed that “the samples from the market that had early Covid lineages in them were contaminated with DNA reads of wild animals.”
Dr. Kamil said that fell short of conclusive evidence that an infected animal had set off the pandemic. But, he said, “it really puts the spotlight on the illegal animal trade in an intimate way.”
