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Re:Endonuclease fingerprint indicates a synthetic origin of ... by astrange on Thursday October 20, 2022 @07:41PM (#33282335)
> The lab right next to the market was literally studying and experimenting with the exact same type of virus. How can a someone think that that's just a coincidence?

If they built the lab next to the viruses that were already there, then it would be reverse causation, which isn't a coincidence, but also kind of is one.

That's the meaning of "correlation is not causation".

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Re:Endonuclease fingerprint indicates a synthetic origin of ... by wk_end on Friday October 21, 2022 @01:17AM (#33284770)
Except they didn't. The WIV was founded decades before coronaviruses were a subject of interest, and the bat coronaviruses they were researching that SARS-CoV-2 is related to all come from caves in Yunnan, which is about 1,500km away.
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