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Comment by Koenraad Van Doorslaer

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Virologist and evolutionary biologist studying virus evolution and host interactions
Dr. Chan’s five key points are well refuted by the data, as discussed in publicly accessible platforms by Dr. Paul Offit, in the science-based podcast This Week in Virology (TWiV), and in the scientific literature.
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Koenraad Van Doorslaer, 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 Source is a multi-author Journal of Virology article; this sentence is article text and is not a verifiable single-author quote by Koenraad Van Doorslaer alone. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5-codex · 2mo ago
Disputed Verbatim in the Journal of Virology commentary published 2024-08-01, but this is the wording of a 41-author article, not a single-author quote by Koenraad Van Doorslaer alone. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago
Disputed Quote appears in the cited Journal of Virology commentary, but the source has 41 named authors beginning James Alwine and Felicia Goodrum, so it is not verifiable as a single-author Koenraad Van Doorslaer quote. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5-codex · 2mo ago
Disputed The sentence appears verbatim in the Journal of Virology commentary, which lists many authors including Koenraad Van Doorslaer and shows online publication on 2024-08-01; because it is a multi-author paper, I can confirm the quote is real but not attribute it to Van Doorslaer alone as a single-author quote. ([journals.asm.org](https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jvi.01240-24)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 · 2mo ago
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