freeman3
You're saying he cooked his data?
Based on what evidence?
freeman3
Anderesen
freeman3
Maybe you want to reread your linked article. Quoting Andersen doing just this...
Andersen
Researchers have cooked data
You're saying he cooked his data?
Based on what evidence?
freeman3
So just because he published that doesnt mean it is assumed that he his views had evolved for good scientific reasons.
Anderesen
"it specifically means we thought—on preliminary look—that the virus could have been engineered and/or manipulated. Turns out the data suggest otherwise—which is the conclusion of our paper."
In a separate tweet Andersen wrote: "As I have said many times, we seriously considered a lab leak a possibility. However, significant new data, extensive analyses and many discussions led to the conclusions in our paper.
freeman3
His research does not answer that question. The only way for him to answer that is for the researcher to answer it himself.
Maybe you want to reread your linked article. Quoting Andersen doing just this...
Andersen
In a separate tweet, Andersen wrote: "Conspiracies have created a narrative where we all 'dismissed it [the lab leak hypothesis] out of hand'."
"That's absurd and couldn't be further from the truth. It's just that the data don't support the hypothesis."