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Surgeon/scientist promoting science in medicine and exposing quackery. Editor of Science-Based Medicine. My opinions do NOT represent those of my employers.

Michigan, USA
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    1. Marc Lipsitch‏Verified account @mlipsitch May 25

      https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/05/25/timeline-how-wuhan-lab-leak-theory-suddenly-became-credible/ …. A key point: lab leak does not imply manipulation and manipulation does not imply ill intent.

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    2. Marc Lipsitch‏Verified account @mlipsitch May 25

      Marc Lipsitch Retweeted Tom Cotton

      I disagree with @SenTomCotton on many many things but this set of tweets quoted in the article lays it out correctlyhttps://twitter.com/SenTomCotton/status/1229202134048133126 …

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      Tom CottonVerified account @SenTomCotton
      Let me debunk the debunkers. @paulina_milla and her “experts” wrongly jump straight to the claim that the coronavirus is an engineered bioweapon. That’s not what I’ve said. There’s at least four hypotheses about the origin of the virus: https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1229187459742867465 …
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    3. Marc Lipsitch‏Verified account @mlipsitch May 25

      In contrast this statement is illogical “However, since we observed all notable SARS-CoV-2 features, including the optimized RBD and polybasic cleavage site, in related coronaviruses in nature, we do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible.”

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      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon May 26
      Replying to @mlipsitch

      One must also consider that during every major outbreak, epidemic, or pandemic, there has arisen a conspiracy theory that the origin of the causative microbe was in a laboratory; for example, H1N1, Ebola, and now #COVID19. During. Every. Single. One.

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        2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon May 26
          Replying to @gorskon @mlipsitch

          As a result, there is huge element of "Been there, done that" to the Wuhan "lab leak" hypothesis, particularly given its association with the loonier "plandemic" conspiracy theories that began early in the pandemic.

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        3. Alex Merz‏ @Merz May 26
          Replying to @gorskon @mlipsitch

          HIV, too.pic.twitter.com/1myqhpYkTJ

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        1. scripto‏ @MarkScriptunas May 26
          Replying to @gorskon @mlipsitch

          We all live in a lab

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        1. Harrison Snyder, MD‏ @HSnyderMD May 26
          Replying to @gorskon @mlipsitch

          Even if it did somehow escape from a lab, these people take all sort of unrealistic creative license with that. E.g. “Fauci created this, Bill Gates made it so we’d need a vaccine and he could then microchip us,” etc.

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        2. James Root‏ @Rootiiij May 26
          Replying to @gorskon @mlipsitch

          Is it also possible they were studying a novel strain and those researchers were infected by said strain outside of their work? It seems more plausible to me that someone not taking any precautions outside of work might be more susceptible to infection. 1/

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        3. James Root‏ @Rootiiij May 26
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          After all, all it would take is one researcher being infected outside of work, who could then go onto infect their co-workers. Not saying accidental lab release is impossible, but lab workers being infected by a super contagious disease that could have been spreading unknown 2/

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