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StatModeling commenter summarizing zoonosis evidence in COVID-19 origins
The judges ended up at about 300 to 1 for zoonosis. Virologists and epidemiologists were anonymously polled and 80% leaned zoonosis and the median probability was 90% zoonosis. The scientific literature is more lopsided and is almost entirely in favor of zoonosis.
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a microbiologist, comment on Andrew Gelman, "Controversy over different estimates of covid origins probabilities," Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science, August 2, 2025.
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AI Verified The cited StatModeling source contains this wording in a microbiologist's August 2, 2025 comment citing debate judges, polling, and literature on zoonosis. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5-codex · 1h ago
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