Lab leak: A conspiracy in search of a theory

Over the last few weeks there has been quite a bit in the news about the origins of Covid. In this video, Dr Susan Oliver and Cindy the dog will have a look at what is new evidence and what is rhetoric.

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https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SusanAndJulie

Links to videos mentioned:

Will lab leak claims ever go away?
https://youtu.be/rmSAZbkN5mQ

@BadBoyofScience
Explained: Does SARS-CoV-2 Show Signs Of Genetic Engineering?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb-56wJDkDY

@DebunktheFunkwithDrWilson
Loony lab leak conspiracies on Capitol Hill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlZBkG2K91I

Links to videos featuring scientists involved in Covid origin research:

@BadBoyofScience
Did Raccoon Dogs Cause The COVID-19 Pandemic: New Evidence (w Angela Rasmussen & Eddie Holmes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF2zMR-vASo

Is The COVID Lab Leak Hypothesis Dead? w Kristian Andersen, Mike Worobey & Philipp Markolin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIuY0rZ3KjI

Debunking Bad Lab Leak Arguments - w Angela Rasmussen, Stephen Goldstein Philipp Markolin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8VmHZl7DH0

Eddie Holmes: Zoonotic Diseases, China, Fauci, And The Lab Leak Hypothesis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIqmg4tIJ6c

Relevant TWiV episodes:
https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-762/
https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-774/
https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-876/
https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-940/

Links to data:
Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in the environment and animal samples of the Huanan Seafood Market
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-1370392/v1

Genetic evidence of susceptible wildlife in SARS-CoV-2 positive samples at the Huanan Wholesale Seafood Market, Wuhan: Analysis and interpretation of data released by the Chinese Center for Disease Control
https://zenodo.org/record/7754299#.ZBz--3bP1D-

List of all MDPI predatory journals
https://predatoryreports.org/news/f/list-of-all-mdpi-predatory-publications

Endonuclease fingerprint indicates a synthetic origin of SARS-CoV-2
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.18.512756v1

Updated analysis to reject the laboratory-engineering hypothesis of SARS-CoV-2
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935123002736

SARS-CoV-2 furin cleavage site was not engineered
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2211107119

Furin cleavage sites naturally occur in coronaviruses
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1873506120304165

Investigate the origins of COVID-19
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abj0016

Serological Evidence of Bat SARS-Related Coronavirus Infection in Humans, China
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12250-018-0012-7

Origins of the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic in swine in Mexico
https://elifesciences.org/articles/16777

A critical analysis of the evidence for the SARS-CoV-2 origin hypotheses
https://journals.asm.org/doi/abs/10.1128/jvi.00365-23

Virology under the Microscope—a Call for Rational Discourse
(Source of gain of function research table)
https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/msphere.00034-23