Plot twist for the Science article that generated many headlines about the initial known case being connected to the Wuhan market. As author graciously acknowledges here, the internet researchers—so-called sleuths—have shown the claim to be wrong. Will there be new headlines?https://twitter.com/MichaelWorobey/status/1470159029997428736 …
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But more. If you read his thread, he correctly points out first *known* case isn’t that dispositive. But that’s not how the media coverage played out. It will be interesting to see if what they considered so important before is seen as just as important now that it is reversed.
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There was credible reporting China knows of November cases. What little they told us of December cases is contradictory, incoherent and incomplete. I don’t think it’s possible to make sound conclusions. Their scientists long said market was an amplifying event. But we don’t know.
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Also compatible with market being an amplifying event—as Chinese scientist long claimed. Or China hiding cases—the list they gave still doesn’t make sense, has unexplained issues. Or Wuhan CDC with lab, few hundreds yards from that market being involved. Or market being source.
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Isn’t the semi-official Chinese position that the market could not have been the source? That’s what he’s responding to.https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3159347/chinese-scientist-hits-back-wuhan-market-coronavirus-origin?module=perpetual_scroll_0&pgtype=article&campaign=3159347 …
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Let's say the Chinese government knows (or suspects) that the lab is the source, and that's what they're covering up. Why would they go out of their way to shit on the leading alternative theory?
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Check very early Chinese scientific papers by their top authors, before the censorship on this topic started. Market as amplifying event and not source isn’t a new claim. That’s what they long said. I don’t have a claim about what they’re doing now. I mean, how do we judge?
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