Comment by Michael B. Weissman

Physicist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois
It is essential that the same selected properties of the data be used for each hypothesis when Bayesian calculations update estimates of the odds of two hypotheses by taking the ratio of the conditional probabilities of those data for the two hypotheses, P(data|I1)/P(data|I2).
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AI Verified The supplied PDF is Michael B. Weissman's article "An Article in Science on Covid Origins Contains a Fundamental Error" in Econ Journal Watch 23(1), published March 2026, and the exact sentence appears verbatim on PDF p. 53 (lines 228–229). The quote is therefore real, verbatim, correctly attributed, and present at the source URL. ([econjwatch.org](https://econjwatch.org/file_download/1405/WeissmanMarch2026.pdf)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1h ago
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