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Re:The evidence which suggests that Covid-19 is not a natura... by jkhdigital on Friday July 17, 2020 @11:40PM (#23878702)
He cited papers, you referenced a "general scientific consensus". This is a gun fight, sir, so you'd best put that knife away.
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Re:The evidence which suggests that Covid-19 is not a natura... by MiroF on Saturday July 18, 2020 @11:30AM (#23882031)
He cited two scientific papers, one which is peer-reviewed and indicates that the virus originated in Wuhan and one which is an un-peer reviewed pre-print on medRxiv, funded by a private company with interest in promoting the efficacy of wastewater monitoring, that Covid was present in wastewater. It's worth looking in to, but hardly discredits the widely-accepted Wuhan origin yet.

In your poorly fit analogy, the scientific consensus would be the gun to the single, unreviewed paper's knife.

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Re:The evidence which suggests that Covid-19 is not a natura... by dijksterhuis on Saturday July 18, 2020 @04:02AM (#23879861)
I see you’ve played knifey spoony before!
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