Children’s health Defense notes that there are some glaring examples of mainstream Covid articles where the grand conclusions do not follow from the body of argument in the papers. One important example is the rejection of the lab leak hypothesis by an authoritative statement in the journal Nature Medicine, followed by a summary in Science and an affidavit in the Lancet signed by a list of prominent scientists.
There was in fact only one very weak argument given in the original Nature Medicine article, the virus’s spike protein was not a perfect fit to the human ACE-2 receptor. The assumption here is that a lab-designed virus would have had a perfect fit, and that natural evolution does not produce such a perfect fit. Both assumptions need to be supported by evidence and argument, but were not even articulated in the article. We now know that an array scientists at the time wanted to shield communist China from investigation.
