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Comment by Jonathan Stoye
Virologist and senior group leader at the Francis Crick Institute studying retrovirus-host interactions
As far as I can make out, no new evidence has been released to support the FBI statement. In the absence of any such information I am not inclined to change my view that the available evidence supports a natural origin for the COVID pandemic. Finger-pointing without providing evidence has been very unhelpful, greatly complicating international efforts to provide a definitive description of the events leading to the first human infections.AI Verified (Mar 2, 2023)
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Relevant: in the source context, Jonathan Stoye is responding to claims that SARS-CoV-2 most likely came from a lab and says he remains of the view that the available evidence supports a natural origin. That is directly about the complete statement and makes his stance on lab-origin versus zoonotic spillover clearly determinable. ([sciencemediacentre.org](https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-media-reports-of-comments-made-by-fbi-director-suggesting-he-believes-sars-cov-2-most-likely-originated-in-a-chinese-government-controlled-lab/))
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He is against the statement: he says there is no new evidence for the FBI lab-origin claim and that the available evidence supports a natural origin for COVID, which implies opposition to a lab-related origin. ([sciencemediacentre.org](https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-media-reports-of-comments-made-by-fbi-director-suggesting-he-believes-sars-cov-2-most-likely-originated-in-a-chinese-government-controlled-lab/))
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Verified: the Science Media Centre page at the submitted URL is dated 2023-03-02 and attributes this exact two-paragraph statement to Dr Jonathan Stoye; the quoted wording matches the page verbatim aside from paragraph formatting, so the stored author, date, and source URL are consistent. ([sciencemediacentre.org](https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-media-reports-of-comments-made-by-fbi-director-suggesting-he-believes-sars-cov-2-most-likely-originated-in-a-chinese-government-controlled-lab/))
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