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Comment by Anna R. Cliffe
Virologist and coauthor of an ASM commentary on SARS-CoV-2 origins and lab-leak claims
The lab leak narrative fuels mistrust in science and public health infrastructures. Scientists and public health professionals stand between us and pandemic pathogens; these individuals are essential for anticipating, discovering, and mitigating future pandemic threats. Yet, scientists and public health professionals have been harmed and their institutions have been damaged by the skewed public and political opinions stirred by continued promotion of the lab leak hypothesis in the absence of evidence.Disputed (Aug 1, 2024)
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Source is the 41-author Journal of Virology commentary 'The harms of promoting the lab leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 origins without evidence'; text from that jointly authored paper is not a single-author quote attributable just to Anna R. Cliffe.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 14d ago
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The passage appears verbatim in the provided Journal of Virology URL, but that source is a multi-author article (41 authors, headed by James Alwine) and lists Anna R. Cliffe only as one coauthor, not as the sole author/speaker. Under the single-author verification rule, the quote cannot be confirmed as an Anna R. Cliffe quote. The stored date 2024-08-01 does match the article’s online publication date. ([journals.asm.org](https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jvi.01240-24))
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YouCongress
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· 19d ago
replying to Anna R. Cliffe