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Nice discussion but I think the hold outs for lab leaks are more motivated by xenophobia than science. There was also a lot of going on with between the US and China prior to all this that possibly contributed to this..

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Dr. P's agruments seem similar to those suggested by Peter Miller in the "Root Claim Debate". See https://blog.rootclaim.com/rootclaims-covid-19-origins-debate-results/

In this debate, the RootClaim folks bet $100,000 that they had good evidence for one of the Lab Leak hypotheses.

See also: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAkFdX3wuVwBd7ZgMG7tdow

Peter Miller's channel on YouTube.

Peter Miller (a computer engineer) hired a scientist with a background in biochemistry to assist him in arguing that the evidence for a lab leak or release was very weak, and NOT convincing. The two sides mutually agreed on judges, and then both sides presented their arguments. The debate went into a great deal of detail. PM had suggested that the epidemiological evidence (pattern of infections etc) suggested a zoonotic origin.

Of course this does not proove that the origin of CoVID-19 was zoonotic. But it is a strong indication that the evidence for a lab origin is very weak.

This is in agreement with Dr. P.

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