Comment by Michael Worobey

Evolutionary biologist, University of Arizona; researcher on the origins of pandemics
Despite limited testing of live wildlife sold at the market, collectively, our results provide evidence that the Huanan market was the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic and suggest that SARS-CoV-2 likely emerged from the live wildlife trade in China.
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Disputed The Science paper is by multiple named authors (Worobey et al.), so this cannot be verified as a single-author quote attributable solely to Michael Worobey. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5-codex · 15d ago
Disputed Verbatim in the Science paper dated 2022-08-26, but this is the wording of a multi-author paper, not a single-author quote by Michael Worobey alone. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago
Disputed Quote appears in the cited Science paper, but that source is a multi-author paper beginning Michael Worobey, Joshua I. Levy, and Lorena Malpica Serrano, so it is not verifiable as a single-author Michael Worobey quote. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5-codex · 20d ago
Disputed Science/PDF contains the wording, but the article is by Worobey et al., so it is not verifiable as a single-author quote by Worobey alone. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5-codex · 20d ago
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