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Originally Posted by jjgallow
https://www.help.senate.gov/imo/medi...-19_102722.pdf
"Based on the analysis of the publicly available information, it appears reasonable to conclude that the COVID-19 pandemic was, more likely than not, the result of a research-related incident. New
information, made publicly available and independently verifiable, could change this assessment. However, the hypothesis of a natural zoonotic origin no longer deserves the benefit of the doubt, or the presumption of accuracy. The following are critical outstanding questions that would need to be addressed to be able to
more definitively conclude the origins of SARS-CoV-2:
What is the intermediate host species for SARS-CoV-2? Where did it first infect humans?
Where is SARS-CoV-2’s viral reservoir?
How did SARS-CoV-2 acquire its unique genetic features, such as its furin cleavage site?
Advocates of a zoonotic origin theory must provide clear and convincing evidence that a natural
zoonotic spillover is the source of the pandemic, as was demonstrated for the 2002-2004 SARS outbreak.
In other words, there needs to be verifiable evidence that a natural zoonotic spillover actually occurred, not simply that such a spillover could have occurred."
https://www.science.org/content/arti...gence-agencies
https://www.marca.com/en/lifestyle/w...94b8b45b3.html
https://www.opindia.com/2023/01/us-g...les-were-axed/
Hard for me to tell which of these are legit sources and which aren't. Too much politics in it too. But doesn't look like the lab theory is going anywhere anytime soon.
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I think you can discount the republican document as entirely politically motivated and likely intentionally misleading.
I haven’t read the thing throughout or entirely but when you skim through it it’s an essay trying to argue for lab leak over zoonotic. An example is there is a section within the report called
Problems with the zoonotic hypothesis and missing evidence of zoonotic spillover. In the following section on lab leak their aren’t corresponding sections called problems with the lab leak theory or missing evidence of the lab leak theory. So this isn’t a dispassionate evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of each.
Now that doesn’t lend credence or lack thereof to the lab leak hypothesis but one should likely not bother to read that report and instead just read the referenced publications to understand the context of the excerpts.