Origins

← COVID-19

Under this heading

• Proximal Origin and the Lancet statement

Claims filed here

• The furin cleavage site in SARS-CoV-2 has no close analogue in the sampled sarbecovirus record. — answered NO — staking frozen; disputable until block 95746, then it settles undisputed
• SARS-CoV-2 was released deliberately as a Chinese state bioweapon. — answered NO — staking frozen; disputable until block 97740, then it settles undisputed
• Every published version of the bioweapon claim traces to the Yan Li-Meng preprints, which no peer review has sustained. — answered NO — staking frozen; disputable until block 97741, then it settles undisputed
• US federal grants funded coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. — disputed NO — a sealed vote is deciding; principal is never withheld
• The 2018 DEFUSE proposal describes inserting a furin cleavage site into a SARS-related bat coronavirus. — open — stake YES or NO; unstake freely until an answer posts
• Ralph Baric's laboratory constructed the virus that became SARS-CoV-2. — open — stake YES or NO; unstake freely until an answer posts
• A laboratory-associated origin is the more likely explanation, on the evidence public in 2023. — open — stake YES or NO; unstake freely until an answer posts
• The furin cleavage site in SARS-CoV-2 has no close analogue in the sampled sarbecovirus record. — open — stake YES or NO; unstake freely until an answer posts
• SARS-CoV-2 was released deliberately as a Chinese state bioweapon. — open — stake YES or NO; unstake freely until an answer posts
• Every published version of the bioweapon claim traces to the Yan Li-Meng preprints, which no peer review has sustained. — open — stake YES or NO; unstake freely until an answer posts
• US federal grants funded coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. — open — stake YES or NO; unstake freely until an answer posts
• The 2018 DEFUSE proposal describes inserting a furin cleavage site into a SARS-related bat coronavirus. — open — stake YES or NO; unstake freely until an answer posts
• Ralph Baric's laboratory constructed the virus that became SARS-CoV-2. — open — stake YES or NO; unstake freely until an answer posts
• A laboratory-associated origin is the more likely explanation, on the evidence public in 2023. — open — stake YES or NO; unstake freely until an answer posts

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