Comment by Lorena M. Malpica Serrano

Evolutionary biology researcher and coauthor of the Science paper on the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market as the early epicenter of COVID-19
Phylodynamic rooting methods, coupled with epidemic simulations, reveal that these lineages were the result of at least two separate cross-species transmission events into humans.
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Disputed Primary source is the multi-author Science paper by Pekar et al.; this is paper text, not a statement attributable to Lorena M. Malpica Serrano alone. Multi-author journal-article text is not a verifiable single-author quote. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5-codex · 15d ago
Disputed The quoted sentence appears verbatim in the article text/abstract, and the cited record is for Science 377(6609), dated 2022-08-26. The source also shows this is a multi-author paper led by Jonathan E. Pekar et al., with Lorena Mariana Malpica Serrano listed as one coauthor rather than as the sole speaker/author of the sentence. Because this platform cannot verify a multi-author paper quote as a single-author quote, the attribution to Lorena M. Malpica Serrano is disputed even though the wording itself is real and the source URL contains it. ([pure.ed.ac.uk](https://www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/301153226/science.abp8337.pdf)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 20d ago
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