A Whispered History of Near Misses
January 6, 2021 1:51 PM   Subscribe

In this international potluck supper of genetic cookery, hundreds of new variant diseases were invented and stored. And then one day, perhaps, somebody messed up. It’s at least a reasonable, “parsimonious” explanation of what might have happened. Nicholson Baker investigates (and speculates about) the origins of Covid-19 in The Lab-Leak Hypothesis [NYMag]
posted by chavenet (1 comment total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: eh, let's skip this -- cortex



 
With respect to Baker, he might do well to stick to fiction and music and not promote a conspiracy theory about SARS-CoV-2, a theory which has been debunked by the bioinformatics community familiar with the genome and the current state of genomic engineering (recent example which refers to RaTG13 specifically; another one).
posted by They sucked his brains out! at 2:03 PM on January 6, 2021


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