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    Two new studies were published last week that strongly support a natural zoonotic origin for COVID-19 centered at the wet market in Wuhan, China. Naturally, lab leak proponents soberly considered this

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    • I’m getting a number of responses to yesterday’s post on #lableak along the lines of, “I don’t normally go in for conspiracy theories,” followed by conspiracy mongering and links to material supporting conspiracy theories. Funny, isn’t it? https://t.co/utnleF6oy7

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    Lots of people seem to be confused about the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. The investigating commit…

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    • And, latest fevered reports notwithstanding, a natural origin for #SARSCoV2 is still FAR more likely than #lableak. 4/4 https://t.co/TXbUHXBsSi

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    The British Medical Journal (now The BMJ) is one of the oldest and most respected medical journals in the world that also has a history of publishing some excellent investigative journalism. For insta

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    • Just as it's validating when a respectable medical journal like @bmj_latest publishes bad reports that validate their claims about, for instance, #Covidvaccine and #lableak conspiracy theories. https://t.co/SCj3PYBHpQ https://t.co/aWDpImzZYe

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    President Biden on Tuesday received a classified report from the intelligence community that was inconclusive about the origins of the novel coronavirus, including whether the pathogen jumped from an animal to a human as part of a natural process, or escaped from a lab in central China, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the matter.The intelligence community will seek within days to…

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    • The inconclusive result of the intelligence analysis of #lableak requested by @potus should surprise no one. This is a scientific question that could take years to figure out. There was no way they were going to get an answer in 90 days. https://t.co/4FlDjjOOVV

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    Dr. Anthony Fauci and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) got into another heated exchange at a Senate hearing over Dr. Fauci’s past testimony over gain-of-function research.

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    • #Ugh. The exchange btw #PaulRand and #Fauci about #GainOfFunction tough to listen to: https://t.co/AHBvAcw5Nd The politicization of scientific uncertainty (with a dash of hindsight bias). My take on framing of the #lableak debate: https://t.co/78rERHDBPq via @NBCNewsTHINK

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    The theory that SARS-CoV-2 may have originated in a lab was considered a debunked conspiracy theory, but some experts are revisiting it amid calls for a new, more thorough investigation. Paul Thacker explains the dramatic U turn and the role of contemporary science journalism For most of 2020, the notion that SARS-CoV-2 may have originated in a lab in Wuhan, China, was treated as a thoroughly…

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    • Bloody hell, @bmj_latest? Publishing #lableak conspiracy theories by crank "journalist" @thackerpd? WTF is wrong with you? https://t.co/byX16EWUGQ