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b_b · 617 days ago · link · · parent · post: The COVID lab leak theory is dead. Here’s how we know the virus came from a Wuhan market
Totally agree. I put no stock in the editorial. The real question is the data in the paper I linked. On first read, it looks solid. Of course the question is whether Weibo data are accurate and trustable. I don't think it's too much of a stretch to think that the CCP could manipulate the publicly available data. Unfortunately, there's probably no way for an average person to verify any of it, so we either take them at their word or not. My biggest problem with the paper is that the authors clearly have an axe to grind, and for that reason it doesn't seem like they're setting out to test a null hypothesis, but rather prove a point.Smacks so heavily of CCP propaganda I doubt they could have written it better themselves.