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Comment by Raina MacIntyre

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Professor of global biosecurity and head of the Biosecurity Research Program at the Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney.
The scores may change in either direction depending on who rates the criteria, but the final result is still likely to show that an unnatural origin is plausible, not a low-probability, fringe theory, and that a natural origin is also plausible.
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Raina MacIntyre, quoted in BBC Science Focus, “COVID-19 more likely originated from a lab than animals, bold new study claims,” February 29, 2024.
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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover
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AI Verified The quote says both lab-related and natural origins are plausible, directly relevant to an abstention on the comparative-origin statement. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 4h ago
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AI Verified MacIntyre says both unnatural and natural origins are plausible; recorded abstain matches. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 4h ago

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AI Verified BBC Science Focus (29 Feb 2024) attributes this verbatim wording to Prof. Raina MacIntyre. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 4h ago
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