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Shi Zhengli, the virologist at centre of COVID lab-leak theory, reveals coronavirus sequences from Wuhan institute.

Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20241208004114/https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03982-2

SpinScore: https://spinscore.io/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.com%2Farticles%2Fd41586-024-03982-2

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So every other instance of “we investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing” is to be called into question, but we just gonna accept this because?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The latest analysis, which has not been peer reviewed, includes data from the whole genomes of 56 new betacoronaviruses, the broad group to which SARS-CoV-2 belongs, as well as some partial sequences. All the viruses were collected between 2004 and 2021.

Still a developing story, so it's not conclusion i guess.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Even if it was peer reviewed there's no means to ensure the input is meritable. The sample set was determined by governance. The implied conclusions were predetermined.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Part of the point of the peer review process is to check for that. This kind of satay would be very hard to fake well enough to pass the scrutiny of a bunch of skeptical scientists. And if it passes that any scientist will be able to do the same. Being able to force an other scientist to retract a Nature paper would be a high prize for any academic.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Part of the point of the peer review process is to check for that.

LMFAO. It's authoritarian China.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's Nature. One of the most respected science journals on the planet.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's China, who's authoritarian governance controls the dataset.

The fucking paper even says so itself in the abstract, lmao.