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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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    David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon Jun 15

    David Gorski, MD, PhD Retweeted Eli Klein

    I don’t know if Covid leaked from a lab (although I'm ~99% sure it did not), but I do know that Eli's inability to see how the arguments most #LabLeak proponents use are bad science laced with conspiracy theories disqualifies him as a trustworthy source of #COVID19 commentary.https://twitter.com/TheEliKlein/status/1404812202238951425 …

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    Eli Klein @TheEliKlein
    Replying to @gorskon @jonstewart @colbertlateshow
    I don’t know if Covid leaked from a lab, but I do know that your categorizing that possibility as a “conspiracy theory” disqualifies you as a trustworthy source of Covid analysis
    8:20 AM - 15 Jun 2021
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    • Gwen Jones (she/her) Kurt L Ferré Sue Shilson is fully vaccinated 💌 Garreth D'Mello Laura McCall #NoMassInfection Terence Bartlett 🏳️‍🌈❤️ Jon M. 🎭😷💉Tinkadinkadoo🦻🏻 Nanea Taylor
    35 replies 16 retweets 130 likes
      1. John  💙  🇬🇧‏ @UK_Centrist Jun 15
        Replying to @gorskon

        But that still means you're 50% scientifically sure it didn't come from a lab with a personal (less scientific) hypothesis set to 49%.

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      2. Jeff Enge‏ @JPESportsMiner Jun 15
        Replying to @alxjsm @gorskon

        The... inventor of mRNA, huh?

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      2. flora + fauna  🏳️‍🌈‏ @Stanford_lands Jun 15
        Replying to @gorskon

        I hate it when people weaponize uncertainty in science, as has been done with the lab-leak hypothesis. The responsible and measured response of "I don't know" being distorted into conspiracies.

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      3. kcz‏ @kcz100 Jun 15
        Replying to @Stanford_lands @gorskon

        Epistemic humility would have greatly behooved Daszak and Andersen, the two scientists who were instrumental in unscientifically denouncing lab-leak origin as a conspiracy theory. There is no dispositive evidence of either origin hypothesis.

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      1. (((Emma P.)))‏ @TiredOfYYCCold Jun 15
        Replying to @gorskon

        (((Emma P.))) Retweeted Vincent Racaniello

        A couple of excellent episodes of TWIV recently. #760 & #762 https://twitter.com/profvrr/status/1399020747914420224?s=21 …https://twitter.com/profvrr/status/1399020747914420224 …

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        Vincent RacanielloVerified account @profvrr
        Robert Garry joins #TWiV to explain how the molecular biology of #SARSCoV2 shows that it came from Nature and not a lab, including the receptor binding domain, the furin cleavage site, and the two lineages circulating in Wuhan wildlife markets https://bit.ly/3wGGPiw  pic.twitter.com/eTpNjPmWU0
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      1. Tom Rex  🏳️‍🌈‏ @TheRealTomRex Jun 15
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        A pic that may help get the message across:pic.twitter.com/jCQPYXD6NG

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      2. Alex Palazzo‏ @ribonucleicacid Jun 15
        Replying to @gorskon

        Hey David - check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3iKF9sblAw … Newest studies indicate the SARS-CoV2 likely evolved from several recombination events of viruses out there in nature.

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      3. Alex Palazzo‏ @ribonucleicacid Jun 15
        Replying to @ribonucleicacid @gorskon

        Unless the lab in Wuhan had a recombinant virus in the lab (a possibility, but at this point very unlikely) closer relatives of SARS-CoV2 (than what we've currently sequenced) are likely to be found in horseshoe bats.

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      1. Greg Shelley‏ @Ashamanic Jun 15
        Replying to @gorskon

        “It was made/altered in a lab” is absolutely conspiracy theory. There would be evidence that we do not see. “It was natural, but this outbreak came after it escaped from a lab”, I’m not so sure. I don’t know how different the data would be if this was true.

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