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Comment by Paul Hunter

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Professor of medicine at the University of East Anglia's Norwich Medical School.
My big concern about this tool is that the scores for each of the criteria are determined subjectively by each person rating the criteria. It is entirely possible and indeed likely that if applied by people who believe in the lab leak then the tool would conclude that it is an unnatural event — and the same vice versa.
AI Verified (Mar 15, 2024)
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Noa Leach, “COVID-19 more likely originated from a lab than animals, bold new study claims,” BBC Science Focus, March 15, 2024.
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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover
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AI Verified Hunter’s concern that the assessment outcome turns on lab-leak beliefs directly signals uncertainty about lab versus natural origin. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago
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AI Verified Hunter treats the lab-versus-natural assessment as belief-dependent; abstain matches the recorded answer. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago

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AI Verified Science Focus (15 Mar 2024) prints Hunter’s wording and identifies him as speaker. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1h ago
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