The Spiked artcle is dominated by impassioned rhetoric and lacks dull science.
He seeks to persuade with bombast:
All you really need to know about furin cleavage sites is that SARS-CoV-2 is the first and only SARS-like virus, out of many hundreds that have been described, ever to show up with a furin cleavage site in its spike gene. Sure enough, it’s an insertion, not a mutation, and it’s at the S1/S2 junction.
and ignores dull studies:
*Furin cleavage sites naturally occur in coronaviruses*
The spike protein is a focused target of COVID-19, a pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2. A 12-nt insertion at S1/S2 in the spike coding sequence yields a furin cleavage site, which raised controversy views on origin of the virus. Here we analyzed the phylogenetic relationships of coronavirus spike proteins and mapped furin recognition motif on the tree. Furin cleavage sites occurred independently for multiple times in the evolution of the coronavirus family, supporting the natural occurring hypothesis of SARS-CoV-2.
Like many people he has studied science. As the twig was bent so he bends his view of science towards a pro fracking, Euroskeptic, Conservative House of Lords, investment banker PoV.
He seeks to persuade with bombast:
and ignores dull studies: ~ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187350612...Like many people he has studied science. As the twig was bent so he bends his view of science towards a pro fracking, Euroskeptic, Conservative House of Lords, investment banker PoV.