Unfortunately "Breaking from the tinfoil hat circus" might be a little premature as he is now saying HIV might've leaked from a lab!

I just want to add for people who are rightfully comparing this to the Tuskegee study but saying "at least Tuskegee..."

No. Tuskegee experiment did not add any significant information to our knowledge as it basically just reproduced findings from the Oslo study.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo_st...

Reuters misspelled "antivax physician".

I'm a beginner to stats, hoping to work in epidemiology
bioinformatics... I just read this paper for the first time a couple months ago and was shocked at how ridiculous this famous paper I've been hearing about for decades is.

I wonder why he is still employed as a "statistician".

Ok, good to know. That was the only piece of info she shared that I didn't find to be debunked or discussed already.

Are these the additional datasets that Alina Chan referred to in her NYT opinion piece?

Think there's any chance of them publishing this critique?

You might need to edit a word or two to get it past the new filter.

Thanks, that does make sense. And we'd likely be able to tell if a bat-adapted virus had spilled over?
Is there a paper you'd recommend on how these host-specific adaptations are identified? Not necessarily for SARS2, but in any case.

I don't think this is how Covid came about (market spillover is pretty obvious at this point). But wouldn't a live bat colony give a vector for viral evolution and spillover to take place?