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Eric Winsberg

University of South Florida philosopher of science writing on modeling, evidence, and COVID-19 origins.

So, given that we now know there was ascertainment bias (George Gao was responsible for collecting the data, and he says so), what does this show about their model?

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Eric Winsberg, “Bureaucratic science: a public choice analysis of gatekeeping during COVID-19,” Synthese, December 19, 2025.

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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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The clustering of early cases around the Huanan market reflects where the COVID-19 virus emerged, not just where testing looked

The authors of “The Huanan Seafood …” insist that that the data they have is representative. They deny, in other words, that there was “ascertainment” bias in collecting the cases.

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