A team of scientists claims to have uncovered evidence that the COVID-19 virus was man-made, fueling the hypothesis and some debunked narratives in the past to resurface.
COVID-19, the disease caused by the Sars-CoV-2 virus, is an infectious respiratory disease that spread around the world in early 2020 as part of a pandemic that led to the lockdown of much of the world.
“The effects of our study show that this virus is 99. 9% an artificially created copy of an herbal virus,” Valentin Bruttel, a scientist at the University Hospital of Würzburg and the article, told EuroNews Weekly. Bruttel and his colleagues published their findings in a pre-print form, which has not yet been reviewed by the clinical community.
According to EuroNews Weekly, Bruttel said he detected abnormalities in the Sars-CoV-2 genome in 2021 and, once he started reading the genome of the virus, discovered patterns consistent with the synthesized viruses.
According to Bruttel, there is “a high probability that [Sars-Cov-2] simply gave the impression of being an infectious clone collected in vitro. “
The claim was temporarily spread on social media, adding Twitter and Reddit, but does it replace clinical consensus on this issue?
A new study claims to have decided the origin of Covid-19. The virus that caused the Covid-19 pandemic was likely created in a lab, according to a study by German and American scientists. 1/ pic. twitter. com/BpBSZnwffY
The publication of the article, the latest in a series of studies making similar claims and adding some debunked ones, was met with caution and skepticism in the clinical community.
The first apparent point to note is that, being a preprint, the paper has not been peer-reviewed and suggests any established thoughts about the factor until it has. There are other problems with that as well.
“There seem to be flaws in the logic of this paper about why an entire genome would be combined piece by piece to create a virus,” Hassan Vally, an associate professor of epidemiology at Deakin University, told Newsweek.
“It doesn’t make sense to me. If you did what the authors claim happened, you are placing small amounts of fabricated genetic curtains on a largely intact viral genome and there would be no need to reconstruct a genome into small segments. “. makes no sense and refers to a basic flaw in this article and the logic of interpretation. “
According to Vally, the logic of this paper is not sound, and recurring patterns in the genome may not constitute what the researchers say they constitute.
Other scientists in the box responded to the preprint, denying the claims of Bruttel and his colleagues.
Okay, I took a look at it last night and will temporarily make a topic about it. There are many “fakes” in science, but this preprint is false. There are many reasons (links at the end), but the main one: the “unusual” sites are all *exactly* found in herbal bat coronaviruses. 1/n https://t. co/2IrCemHPG8
Conspiracy theories along those lines emerged almost as soon as the virus did and have plagued the science behind the pandemic cure and vaccines.
“Biological weapons theories have peaked twice. At the beginning of the pandemic, when other people tried to link COVID-19 to biological weapons, and at the beginning of the active vaccination campaign, when other people discussed whether the vaccine is a biological weapon. “researcher Dmitry Erokhin, an assistant at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, told Newsweek, which published an article on COVID-19 conspiracy theories.
According to Erokhin, the researchers found that “fear and mistrust cause other people to seek a possible logical explanation for the emergence of the pandemic and join with other like-minded people about other facets of the pandemic, thus forming – called ‘echo chambers’. “Including, for example, groups for and against vaccines. “
A recent preprint claimed to show that SARS-CoV-2 is of artificial origin, but it is so deep that it would not pass the molecular biology of kindergarten. Below is research with more applicable SARS-CoV genomes, adding recCA inferred from @Jepekar. Very short. pic. twitter. com/uOUrL3bqcv ?
Conspiracy allegations require rigorous clinical evidence to be debunked. The existing clinical consensus is that Sars-CoV-2 was originally an animal-derived disease that was transmitted to humans through bats somewhere in China.
“While it is critical that all questions be asked and explored, some researchers demonstrate their reasoning about this and other issues, and those studies want to be reviewed by objective experts who can assess the relevance of the method and the relevance of the conclusions drawn,” Valley said.
The decision
False.
The medical consensus is that there is very little evidence to suggest that Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease, was either created by humans or created in a laboratory.
Once the paper through Bruttel and his colleagues has been reviewed by other scientists in the field, and if it stands up to scrutiny, the consensus would likely change, but claims in the afterlife have failed to move the needle on the issue.
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