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Professor of genetics at Rutgers University and host of Science From the Fringe
These publications were instrumental in establishing the false narrative that the weight of scientific evidence strongly favored a natural origin over a laboratory origin.
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Bryce Nickels and Science From The Fringe, "Engineering Consensus on COVID Origins (In Defense of Virology - Episode 7)," February 12, 2026.
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The clustering of early cases around the Huanan market reflects where the COVID-19 virus emerged, not just where testing looked
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Disputed The sentence appears verbatim on the cited Substack page, and that page is dated February 12, 2026. However, the byline on the source credits both Science From The Fringe and Bryce Nickels, not Bryce Nickels alone, so this platform cannot verify it as a single-author quote attributed only to Bryce Nickels. ([sciencefromthefringe.substack.com](https://sciencefromthefringe.substack.com/p/engineering-consensus-on-covid-origins)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1h ago
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