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The S:NS ratio cited in the blog post also appears to be simply incorrect: https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1471336024827568130?s=...


So, you take on faith that the s/ns ratio as described by "Eigenrobot" who is quoting "Brett" (who are they?) is correct, and the s/ns ratio described by many microbiologists and genome experts, identifiable on their Twitter accounts, is wrong?

I mean, we can find anyone on Twitter saying anything. I could create an account right now that says I'm an expert on time travel and tweet about it.

And of course now that omicron is circulating widely in humans, its pattern and ratio of mutations is occurring as one would expect. I wonder why something we know is a natural occurrence (mutation as it infects humans worldwide) looks natural. It makes me wonder why the original omicron looked so weird.

To me this is not a conversation about whether a lab leak occurred. It's a conversation about why the experts are not ruling out hypotheses that explain the information so they can (if necessary) move on to other hypotheses. Just dismissing hypotheses that explain the existing information is not very scientific, unless the hypotheses are untestable or are truly off the wall. This hypothesis is not truly off the wall.




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