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by nicolas_t 2256 days ago
Haven't read much yet. But the first point already doesn't inspire much confidence. "This market is less than 9 miles away from The Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences". 9 miles away means that it's at the opposite of the city.

I mean, that text is trying to make it seem like they are close to each other when actually it just means that both are in the same city. 9 miles is not a small distance in a big city like wuhan.

It's like saying that Queens is next to the Statue of Liberty.

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It might be my fault as I linked to the conclusion, but you are reducing the whole article to a part of the 9 miles distance argument
I don't have much faith in crowd sourced investigations based on data only available on the internet and analysed by armchair experts
9 miles is a very close distance in a 60x50 mile city. Queens is next to the Statue of Liberty compared to Philadelphia.