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Re:Lab Leak 2.0? by cassepipe on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @12:18AM (#29791682)
You misread because of a poorly worded sentence. She does not claim Delta's origin was a lab leak at all but that there has been a lab leak. Instead she implicitly compares Omicron and Delta showing that Delta did evolved naturally whereas it is unlikely of Omicron.
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Re:Lab Leak 2.0? by civilized on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @12:31PM (#29797350)
Which is funny because Delta's NS:S ratio is also very high. So by her own logic, the NS:S ratio -- what you called her "main" argument in the other thread -- has no predictive value whatsoever for the natural vs lab leak question.
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Re:Lab Leak 2.0? by dljones on Thursday January 06, 2022 @01:04PM (#29827234)
The ratio is one of four "weirdnesses" laid out by the author, which a lab leak might parsimoniously explain, and which, so far, other hypotheses do not neatly or parsimoniously explain.

So for you to jump to "no predictive value" is a little odd.

Since you feel well-equipped to judge the validity of the various hypotheses for the origin of omicron, which hypothesis do you think explains the information and why?

Thanks.

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Re:Lab Leak 2.0? by tailspin2019 on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @02:08AM (#29792209)
Ah, thank you for clarifying.
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