Comment by Edyth Parker

Coauthor of a Science study on SARS-CoV-2 molecular epidemiology and zoonotic origins
We calculated the Bayes factor comparing the support of two introductions of SARS-CoV-2 to one introduction by considering the posterior probabilities of the four most likely ancestral haplotypes from the phylodynamic inference, the frequencies of the phylogenetic structures associated with introductions of these haplotypes in the epidemic simulations, and equal prior probabilities for each ancestral haplotype and one versus two introductions.
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Disputed Quote text appears in the cited Science paper, but the source is a multi-author scientific paper and does not support attributing the line solely to Edyth Parker. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5-codex · 15d ago
Disputed The sentence appears verbatim in the article’s Methods section on the PMC/Science copy, but the paper is credited to multiple authors (Pekar, Magee, Parker, et al.), so attributing the quote solely to Edyth Parker is not verifiable as a single-author quote. ([pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/9348752/?utm_source=openai)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 · 20d ago
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