Antivaxxers really need to get their #coronavirus conspiracy theories straight. Yesterday, they were blaming the flu vaccine for reducing viral interference and allowing 2019-nCoV to run wild in China. 1/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2020/01/30/coronavirus-flu-vaccine/ …
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Seriously, antivaxxers, just pick a
#coronavirus conspiracy theory and stick with it. There are so many out there now that my head's spinning!
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He has quite a bit of technical detail (phylogenies and sequence alignments) in that blog post, but ultimately his argument is very weak and rather implausible. Seems more like a conspiracy theory. Far more plausible is that it's a natural virus that jumped from animals to humans
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Personally, I like how he implies that the "insert" comes from a Chinese pShuttle containing the SARS S protein sequence, when in fact he's lined up sequences from the commercial pShuttle vector with no insert. It's odd that there's 68% identity, but it's not coding sequence.

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pretty much the same reaction I have to other antivaxxer conspiracy theories: this is nonsense. If they had evidence, I'd take a look, but they don't.
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