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Comment by Paul A. Komesaroff

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Physician and bioethicist; coauthor of a Journal of Bioethical Inquiry article on COVID-19 origins and science.
A substantial body of knowledge, supported by a great deal of data, favours the original hypothesis of most informed experts: that the emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus occurred, like its predecessors, as a result of the well-documented processes of mutation within animal reservoirs followed by cross-species transmission to humans.
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The Question of the Origins of COVID-19 and the Ends of Science, Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover
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Disputed The sentence appears verbatim in the Springer article at line 137, and the article was published on 2023-09-11. However, the article lists two authors—Paul A. Komesaroff and Dominic E. Dwyer—so the submitted single-author attribution is incomplete/misattributed even though the quote itself is authentic. ([link.springer.com](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11673-023-10303-1)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 · 1h ago
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