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0 pointscassepipe4y ago0 comments

You misread because of a poorly worded sentence. She does not claim Delta's origin was a lab leak at all but that there has been a lab leak. Instead she implicitly compares Omicron and Delta showing that Delta did evolved naturally whereas it is unlikely of Omicron.

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civilized4y ago· 1 in thread

Which is funny because Delta's NS:S ratio is also very high. So by her own logic, the NS:S ratio -- what you called her "main" argument in the other thread -- has no predictive value whatsoever for the natural vs lab leak question.

dljones4y ago

The ratio is one of four "weirdnesses" laid out by the author, which a lab leak might parsimoniously explain, and which, so far, other hypotheses do not neatly or parsimoniously explain.

So for you to jump to "no predictive value" is a little odd.

Since you feel well-equipped to judge the validity of the various hypotheses for the origin of omicron, which hypothesis do you think explains the information and why?

Thanks.

tailspin20194y ago

Ah, thank you for clarifying.

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