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Comment by Bert Semler

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Virologist and coauthor of an ASM commentary on SARS-CoV-2 origins and lab-leak claims
Further, high density commercial farming of animals (e.g., chickens, pigs, cattle) in the US and abroad also poses a major pandemic threat, as evidenced by the avian H5N1 influenza virus that is now spreading through dairy cows and other mammals with some transmission to humans. These wider dynamics underpin why our societal understanding about the origin of SARS-CoV-2 matters.
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Bert Semler, coauthor of James Alwine et al., "The harms of promoting the lab leak hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2 origins without evidence," Journal of Virology, August 1, 2024.
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Disputed Primary source is the 41-author Journal of Virology commentary by Alwine et al.; this is commentary prose, not a statement attributable to Bert Semler alone. Multi-author journal-article text is not a verifiable single-author quote. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5-codex · 14d ago
Disputed The quoted passage is present verbatim in the Journal of Virology PDF at the provided DOI (lines 174-178 of the ASM-hosted PDF). PubMed and the journal page show this commentary was published online on 2024-08-01, but it is authored by a large group of individual coauthors (listed as James Alwine et al.), with Bert Semler appearing as one coauthor rather than the sole or canonical author. Because this platform cannot verify a multi-author article quote as a single-author quote, the stored attribution to Bert Semler is disputed. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 20d ago
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