Here's the paper that shows it wasn't likely man-made.twocoach wrote: ↑Mon Apr 13, 2020 12:26 pmA new Pew poll shows that nearly 30% of Americans polled still think that this virus was man-made in a lab. Gee, I wonder what percentage of them vote Team (R)?chiknbut wrote: ↑Mon Apr 13, 2020 10:45 am This is getting fucking maddening.
https://twitter.com/revrrlewis/status/1 ... 2295944193
The disinformation campaign continues to work on a shockingly large chunk of Americans. And what's worse is that much of that chunk probably considers themselves to be better informed than everyone else because they see what's "really" happening. So sad and dangerous.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9
Though, this doesn't rule it out entirely, it shows pretty convincingly that it wasn't man made in the sense of splicing certain genes into an existing virus to make it more lethal or make it become a human pathogen in vitro.
There are other methods you could use to select for viruses that "naturally" jump hosts in a lab though, that wouldn't have these markers. I'm not saying that's what happened here, but there are ways you could do this to make it look like a natural occurence rather than just using modern genetics to make a superbug.
This isn't the conspiracy theorist in me, it's the scientist in me trying to think of every possible possibility before you make any kind of assumption.