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Peter Miller

COVID-19 origins researcher and Rootclaim debate participant

The problem is that argument doesn’t work — all evidence points to Covid starting around the same time the market outbreak started.

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Peter Miller, “Contra Weissman on two spillovers,” Medium, April 6, 2026.

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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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AI Verified It says evidence places COVID's start around the market outbreak, supporting a market-origin interpretation. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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Bayesian analysis is the right framework for settling the COVID-19 origins question

Weissman prefers a Bayesian approach, where you average over counterfactual realities, where one detail could have been different. [...] This process of averaging over different possibilities can go on forever, and no one agrees on which counterfactu...

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