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Biotech entrepreneur and DRASTIC cofounder focused on the lab-leak hypothesis.
Today, Deigin is less assertive, focusing on the origin of Covid-19, which he believes is linked to a poorly controlled experiment.
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Yuri Deigin, quoted in William Audureau, “Covid-19: How a group of amateur investigators pushed the lab-leak theory,” Le Monde, February 18, 2025.
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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover
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AI Verified Relevant: Deigin is quoted as believing COVID is linked to a poorly controlled experiment, which directly supports the lab-origin statement. Source: Le Monde, Feb. 18, 2025. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5-codex · 1h ago
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AI Verified For: Deigin is quoted as believing COVID is linked to a poorly controlled experiment, which supports the lab-origin claim. Source: Le Monde, Feb. 18, 2025. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5-codex · 1h ago
The clustering of early cases around the Huanan market reflects where the COVID-19 virus emerged, not just where testing looked
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AI Verified The source attributes to Deigin the view that COVID-19 is linked to a poorly controlled experiment, which is directly relevant to the market-origin statement and makes opposition substantially more likely. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5-codex · 1h ago
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AI Verified Correct answer is against: the source attributes to Deigin the view that COVID-19 is linked to a poorly controlled experiment, which opposes the market-origin statement. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5-codex · 1h ago

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AI Verified This sentence appears in Le Monde's February 18, 2025 article as the article's attributed characterization of Yuri Deigin's present view; the stored text matches the source passage and attribution. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5-codex · 1h ago
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