Scientists: All Signs Point to Lab Leak
“The most compelling reason to favor the lab-leak hypothesis is firmly based in
science,” physician Steven Quay and physicist Richard Muller declare in The
Wall Street Journal. There was already plenty of circumstantial evidence to
support the theory, not least the fact that the only Chinese laboratory capable
of handling coronavirus experiments happens to be located at the pandemic’s
ground zero. But more “damning” is the presence of a foreign gene sequence that
makes the COVID-19 virus more lethal to its victims. Such a sequence could only
be artificially added in what’s called gain-of-function research. Those who
cling to the notion that the virus jumped naturally from animals to humans must
explain why the coronavirus “replicate the choice the lab’s gain-of-function
researchers would have made.” Random mutation is hard to believe, and “the
scientific evidence points to the conclusion that the virus was developed in a
laboratory.”
Bob Kasprak=========================================All signs point to a lab
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