Scholarly Comments on Academic Economics

Michael Weissman on Covid Origins

Manuscript version of forthcoming paper:

An Article in Science on Wet-Market Covid Origins is Unreliable

by Michael B. Weissman

An influential paper by Worobey et al. and 17 other authors published in Science in 2022 claimed that case locations and nucleic acid samples showed that SARS-CoV-2 had first been introduced to humans at the Huanan Seafood Market. Several lines of evidence suggest the introduction to humans was earlier and elsewhere.


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