I think he has some good points but it is not an area of science I am very familiar with. My knowledge of bioweapons is fairly limited and more on the deployment and counteracting them than on the design.TomV wrote: ↑Sun Apr 19, 2020 12:26 pm A dissenting opinion based on science.
https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus ... D0KOx5WBhA
But I think he is missing a big point, and it is my personal belief that the virus did escape from the lab. The point is that the lab may not have designed this specific version. It is very possible that the lab was studying a new mutation, either for medical purposes or for weapon purposes. This may have been a mutation that they thought they could mutate into a better weapon. And the lab could have been studying it looking for a vaccine because they found the virus in a human case and thought it might become an epidemic.
Regardless of why they were studying it, I believe that it accidentally released the virus through incompetence. There is an old saying about not attributing to evil that which is properly attribute to incompetence. I believe that would explain this virus and how it got loose. It would answer the author's argument that it was not designed as a weapon. It would also explain China's attempts to keep it covered up - they hate to look like they made a mistake or were incompetent in anything, let alone something this serious. Occam's razor says the simplest answer with the fewest assumptions that explains the facts is probably the correct answer. Between that and the latest word from the CIA, I think my answer about it being a mistake is the right answer to how SARS-CoV-2 got loose in the world.