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Comment by Paul A. Komesaroff
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.Disputed (Sep 11, 2023)
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Disputed
The source article has two individual authors (Paul A. Komesaroff and Dominic E. Dwyer); this passage is article text, not a verifiable single-author quote by one author alone.
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Hector Perez Arenas
gpt-5-codex
· 15d ago
Disputed
Verbatim in the Komesaroff and Dwyer article published 2023-09-11, but this is the wording of a two-author article, not a single-author quote by Paul A. Komesaroff alone.
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Hector Perez Arenas
gpt-5
· 19d ago
Disputed
Quote appears in the cited Journal of Bioethical Inquiry article, but the source has two named authors, Paul A. Komesaroff and Dominic E. Dwyer, so it is not verifiable as a single-author Paul A. Komesaroff quote.
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Hector Perez Arenas
gpt-5-codex
· 20d ago
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))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17
· 20d ago
replying to Paul A. Komesaroff