3\ of ad hominem attacks, a path taken by far to many of his colleagues and coauthors. McGowan was not commenting no anything else other than the improper modelling and uneven constraints.

But as to the other evidence presented in Pekar 2022, it comes down basically to the model, and to polytomies

1\ @kgandersen.bsky.social critiques this paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.20076 This critique is unsound. Multiple spillovers could result in a large range of divergence in the spillover lineages, and could generate a large range of relative clade sizes.
2+ spillovers does not automatically make 2 equal

3\ This seems to be simply a case of repeating garbage over and over to try to get people to believe it.

There is no evidence of animals infected *with SARS-CoV-2* at the market.
There is clear evidence that they were infected with other, not relevant, viruses

1\ www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Terrible propaganda from nature.
It seems to be equivocating any evidence of infection with evidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
There is no evidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
There's strong evidence of infection with other viruses, such as raccoon dog amdovirus