Declassified U.S. report on origins of Covid-19 virus [pdf]

Re:Declassified U.S. report on origins of Covid-19 virus [pdf] by crazygringo on Friday June 23, 2023 @11:27PM (#36455217)

Can you point to a non-biased source that explains this in more detail?

I'm not a biologist, I don't have the slightest idea what the heck a furin cleavage site is, and so whether this is a red herring or a smoking gun.

But if you think this is such a smoking gun, can you point to somebody who explains in detail for a general audience what it means, why it's true, and how statistically unlikely it would be for it to be natural?

I just don't have anywhere near the background to know whether your comment is valid, but would like to know more.

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Re:Declassified U.S. report on origins of Covid-19 virus [pdf] by BryantD on Friday June 23, 2023 @11:41PM (#36455313)

The furin cleavage theory is fairly controversial: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2211107119

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Re:Declassified U.S. report on origins of Covid-19 virus [pdf] by KennyBlanken on Friday June 23, 2023 @11:44PM (#36455328)

If it were fairly controversial, why are you citing a paper in PNAS, the Journal Of Last Refuge for shitty science?

The only benefit of being a member of the academy of sciences is that you can dump into PNAS whatever hot trash you couldn't sell to any other journal, because they almost never reject papers from members.

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Re:Declassified U.S. report on origins of Covid-19 virus [pdf] by BryantD on Friday June 23, 2023 @11:47PM (#36455344)

Sorry, not going to do the “your cite doesn’t count because I don’t like some ineffable thing about it” game.

There’s a scientific claim in there; I will freely admit that I don’t know enough about viral genetics to have a valid opinion about it. What I do know is that people disagree about the implication of the furin cleavage site and it’s poor form not to acknowledge that.

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