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by adamredwoods 1336 days ago
Even the big paper publishers say "No conclusive evidence for either theory."

https://www.science.org/content/article/do-three-new-studies...

>> Still, Worobey and his co-authors concede, even that evidence might not be enough to end this polarizing debate. “With the way that people have been able to just push aside any and all evidence that points away from a lab leak, I do fear that even if there were evidence from one of these samples that was full of red fox DNA and SARS-CoV-2 that people might say, ‘We still think it actually came from the handler of that red fox,’” Worobey says.

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> Even the big paper publishers say "No conclusive evidence for either theory."

They initially claimed their evidence was "dispositive" but their peer reviewers (correctly, IMHO) made them take it out.

https://ayjchan.medium.com/evidence-for-a-natural-origin-of-...