With all due respect (and you know I think you're the best business columnist in the land), the story you link to isn't worth much, given how much space it gives to debunking a Daily Mail article. Who believes the Daily Mail about anything? Certainly not a must-read.
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Thanks, but I think there’s much more to it than that. The DM article is about a paper that puts forth an argument that appears elsewhere, including in that benighted Wade article. It all needs to be debunked, and I think Gorski did it expertly.
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Hmmm. The article is good because it takes on things, in other publications, that it doesn't mention. Ahh, Carnac the Magnificent sees it... Well, no, even Carnac doesn't see that. That paper isn't referenced in the Wade article. And what you've linked to is, really, kinda lame.
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no, but their claim about four positive amono acids being some sort of signifier of an engineered virus is in Wade’s article, and it’s been shown to be wrong.
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I'm not going to get into the weeds on Twitter, but the argument you're making is bogus in my estimation, and I think David Baltimore should be listened to. 1/2
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Replying to @meckdevil @hiltzikm and
“When I first saw the furin cleavage site in the viral sequence, with its arginine codons, I said to my wife it was the smoking gun for the origin of the virus,” said David Baltimore, an eminent virologist and former president of CalTech.
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“These features make a powerful challenge to the idea of a natural origin for SARS2,” he said.
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Where did Baltimore say this, by the way? I can't find a reference to an original source, and every other reference I've found takes it from Wade, who doesn't cite his source. BAS should footnote it, at least, given the outsized influence it seems to have had.
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It's also an appeal to authority to quote Baltimore. I can list a number of scientists who have gone totally down the rabbit hole of pseudoscience and conspiracy theories IN THEIR OWN AREAS OF EXPERTISE—and not just about
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As an example of such a scientist, who has gone full conspiracy theorist about
#SARSCoV2#LabLeakTheory, I present Nobel laureate Luc Montagnier...from over a year ago!https://respectfulinsolence.com/2020/04/21/montagnier-says-coronavirus-was-made-in-a-wuhan-lab/ …2 replies 3 retweets 3 likes
I mean, he's a virologist, and co-discoverer of HIV, and he still fell for bad molecular biology from conspiracy theorists about "HIV sequences" in the #SARSCoV2 #SpikeProtein.
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In 2012 he was speaking at homeopathy conferences.
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