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Comment by Felicia Goodrum
Virologist at the University of Arizona; coauthor of an ASM commentary on SARS-CoV-2 origins and lab-leak claims
Science is humanity’s best insurance against threats from nature, but it is a fragile enterprise that must be nourished and protected. The preponderance of scientific evidence indicates a natural origin for SARS-CoV-2. Yet, the theory that SARS-CoV-2 was engineered in and escaped from a lab dominates media attention, even in the absence of strong evidence. We discuss how the resulting anti-science movement puts the research community, scientific research, and pandemic preparedness at risk.Disputed (Aug 1, 2024)
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Source is a multi-author Journal of Virology article; the quoted passage appears in the article abstract, but it is not attributed to Felicia Goodrum individually, so this single-author quote record is misattributed and not repairable.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 14d ago
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The text is real and appears verbatim in the abstract at the Journal of Virology source URL, which also shows the article date as 1 August 2024. However, the source attributes the piece to multiple individual authors—beginning with James Alwine and Felicia Goodrum, followed by many others—rather than to Felicia Goodrum alone, so this platform cannot verify it as a single-author quote by her. ([journals.asm.org](https://journals.asm.org/doi/abs/10.1128/jvi.01240-24))
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YouCongress
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· 20d ago
replying to Felicia Goodrum