It only took 2+ years to get from 'dispositive' to 'not conclusive', which is what it always was - an argument for a market origin hypothesis based on very shaky data and rickety analyses, Not some thundering final verdict from 'The Experts' @USRightToKnow usrtk.org/covid-19-origi…
@BiophysicsFL @USRightToKnow This is how Stu Neil @stuartjdneil described the papers right after they were published without the “dispositive” language. Neither Stu nor the peer reviewers caught the mountain of errors in conception or in execution.
@ban_epp_gofroc @USRightToKnow @stuartjdneil I do remember him saying the preprint version would be toned down by peer review - which it was. However, he joined in the chorus of those remaining way more definitive than the evidence supported...and he wasn't even an author.