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| In a non-peer-reviewed and [[ https://img-prod.tgcom24.mediaset.it/images/2020/02/16/114720192-5eb8307f-017c-4075-a697-348628da0204.pdf | unpublished seven paragraph paper on Researchgate]] in April 2020 (since withdrawn), [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huazhong_University_of_Science_and_Technology | Huazhong University ]] DNA researcher [[ https://academic.microsoft.com/author/2283130047/publication/search?q=Botao%20Xiao&qe=Composite(AA.AuId%253D2283130047)&f=&orderBy=0 | Botao Xiao ]] [[https://www2.scut.edu.cn/biology_en/2017/0614/c5951a169022/page.htm | older ]] and Lei Xiao claim that Covid-19 escaped from bat research into the Wuhan population from the [[ http://www.chinacdc.cn/en/| China Center for Disease Control and Prevention ]] provincial office in Wuhan, Hubei. AFAIK, the Class 2 lab in Wuhan merely investigates unusual infectious disease at hospitals in Hubei province and performs no wildlife research. Animal and virus research occurs at the | In a non-peer-reviewed and [[ https://img-prod.tgcom24.mediaset.it/images/2020/02/16/114720192-5eb8307f-017c-4075-a697-348628da0204.pdf | unpublished seven paragraph paper on Researchgate]] in April 2020 (since withdrawn), [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huazhong_University_of_Science_and_Technology | Huazhong University ]] DNA researcher [[ https://academic.microsoft.com/author/2283130047/publication/search?q=Botao%20Xiao&qe=Composite(AA.AuId%253D2283130047)&f=&orderBy=0 | Botao Xiao ]] ( [[https://www2.scut.edu.cn/biology_en/2017/0614/c5951a169022/page.htm | older description]] ) ( [[ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ap6QWmcAAAAJ&hl=en | Google Scholar]] ) and Lei Xiao claim that Covid-19 escaped from bat research into the Wuhan population from the [[ http://www.chinacdc.cn/en/| China Center for Disease Control and Prevention ]] provincial office in Wuhan, Hubei. AFAIK, the Class 2 lab in Wuhan merely investigates unusual infectious disease at hospitals in Hubei province and performs no wildlife research. Animal and virus research occurs at the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan_Institute_of_Virology | Wuhan Institute of Virology ]]. |
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| Published 2021/01/04 [[ https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-escape-theory.html | The Lab Leak Hypothesis ]] makes strange statements like "no public investigation has taken place. We still know very little about the origins of this disease." | Published 2021/01/04 [[ https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-escape-theory.html | The Lab Leak Hypothesis ]] makes strange statements like "no public investigation has taken place. We still know very little about the origins of this disease." That is true of Baker and New York Magazine, but not of the thousands of researchers and peer-reviewed authors who evaluated the genetic sequence, tied it to bats, and track the thousands of variants by their genetic sequence. Read some of the peer-reviewed papers, in Science, Nature, Cell, and many other specialty journals. Learn what the real researchers know, and more importantly, what they still don't know but strive to find out. Science is a global, collaborative activity, always updating and changing as new experiments are made and new facts emerge. Dr. Xiao is allowed to have an opinion, and is allowed to call himself a scientist, but he is not allowed to designate his opinion as a scientific fact without the concurrence of the subject experts - which he is not. New York Magazine is not a scientific magazine, and is not peer reviewed. Nor are the crackpots who keep reposting Xiao's ''withdrawn'' brief paper of April 2020. |
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In a non-peer-reviewed and unpublished seven paragraph paper on Researchgate in April 2020 (since withdrawn), Huazhong University DNA researcher Botao Xiao ( older description ) ( Google Scholar ) and Lei Xiao claim that Covid-19 escaped from bat research into the Wuhan population from the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention provincial office in Wuhan, Hubei. AFAIK, the Class 2 lab in Wuhan merely investigates unusual infectious disease at hospitals in Hubei province and performs no wildlife research.
Animal and virus research occurs at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
This withdrawn preprint still circulates among the fringe right wing, and was quoted by non-science-writer Nicholson Baker in an article in New York Magazine (not to be confused with the New York Times magazine or the New Yorker magazine.
Published 2021/01/04 The Lab Leak Hypothesis makes strange statements like "no public investigation has taken place. We still know very little about the origins of this disease." That is true of Baker and New York Magazine, but not of the thousands of researchers and peer-reviewed authors who evaluated the genetic sequence, tied it to bats, and track the thousands of variants by their genetic sequence.
Read some of the peer-reviewed papers, in Science, Nature, Cell, and many other specialty journals. Learn what the real researchers know, and more importantly, what they still don't know but strive to find out. Science is a global, collaborative activity, always updating and changing as new experiments are made and new facts emerge. Dr. Xiao is allowed to have an opinion, and is allowed to call himself a scientist, but he is not allowed to designate his opinion as a scientific fact without the concurrence of the subject experts - which he is not. New York Magazine is not a scientific magazine, and is not peer reviewed. Nor are the crackpots who keep reposting Xiao's withdrawn brief paper of April 2020.