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Re:Ctcctcggcgggcacgtag is unique to both SARS-CoV-2 and Mode... by dekhn on Friday January 14, 2022 @04:07PM (#29940448)
For the furin cleavage site, here's some useful evidence. A nobel prize winning geneticist said that was the "smoking gun", but later had to walk it back. https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/the-debate-over-origins-o...

let's just say some number of scientists love jargon and they love to bandy about "furin cleavage site" and "smoking gun" because it sounds cool.

For your second question, HIV-1 doesn't have anything to do with this.

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Re:Ctcctcggcgggcacgtag is unique to both SARS-CoV-2 and Mode... by feoren on Friday January 14, 2022 @04:30PM (#29940712)
> HIV-1 doesn't have anything to do with this

But then why is 40% of his article and 3/4 of the rows in the table devoted to the similarity between SARS-CoV-2 and HIV-1?

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Re:Ctcctcggcgggcacgtag is unique to both SARS-CoV-2 and Mode... by dekhn on Friday January 14, 2022 @04:40PM (#29940815)
You're asking me to explain conspiracy logic, and I can't.
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