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Comment by John G Williams

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StatModeling commenter on virology expertise and COVID-19 origins
I’ve learned to trust her judgement about this sort of thing, so it weighs heavily on my thinking that they are in the “probably a zoonotic origin camp.” That said, if people want to take the trouble to read the WHO report, they can see how it deals with the furin cleavage and other points people have mentioned above.
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John G Williams, comment on Andrew Gelman, "Controversy over different estimates of covid origins probabilities," Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science, August 1, 2025.
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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover
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AI Verified Quote says the relevant virologists are in the probable zoonotic-origin camp, so it is relevant against the lab-origin statement. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5-codex · 16d ago
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AI Verified Recorded answer 'against' matches the quote’s lean toward a zoonotic origin. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5-codex · 16d ago

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AI Verified John G Williams’s comment contains this wording; corrected the stored text to the exact comment phrasing. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5-codex · 16d ago
Disputed StatModeling comment dated 2025-08-01 supports the author/date/source, but the stored content paraphrases the source comment rather than quoting it verbatim. Correct content should preserve the original wording about trusting his wife's judgment and the virologists in the 'probably a zoonotic origin' camp; source URL and author remain unchanged. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5-codex · 20d ago
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