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. . . hmmmm. . . doing science by consensus?It is impossible to tell at this time, though #17 can look like the horse's rear-end in front of the other readers when taking on the credibility of Johns Hopkins:
Aug 2020 John Hopkins / Ann Arbor
'....At this time, the scientific consensus is that the virus emerged as a zoonosis whereby it jumped from an animal host, probably bats, or pangolins, to humans, and arguments about a laboratory origin for SARS-CoV-2 are more akin to a conspiracy theory than to a scientifically credible hypothesis. In the very unlikely event that SARS-Cov-2 had emerged by accidental escape from a lab, however, that would be a great cause for concern because the Wuhan facility was state of the art and presumably operating with a high degree of care.'![]()
Rethinking Gain-of-Function Experiments in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic - PubMed
Proponents of the use of gain-of-function (GOF) experiments with pathogens with pandemic potential (PPP) have argued that such experiments are necessary because they reveal important facets of pathogenesis and can be performed safely. Opponents of GOF experiments with PPP have argued that the...www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Where have we all heard this before?
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