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Where do they offer $100K to anyone who debunks their hypothesis?

How can someone "prove" it is Zoonotic in origin, to "win" the bet?

Is this a false challenge; Someone may be able to prove that this started in a lab, but no one can prove the opposite. Free publicity.

As an aside, it looks like they list "No whistleblowers" and "No reported infections at WIV" as increasing the odds it is not Zoonotic, which makes no sense.

>>sam_go+(OP)
You are right. The way they structure their challenges is different. Basically it's a debate between the two parties and judges with the relevant domain-knowledge will decide who is right. I think this is the most unscientific way to judge a claim, but I think that it's possible that the a group of people with enough knowledge in epidemiology and biology will be able to win this competition.

>>sam_go+(OP)
I guess the only way to really prove it is to find covid-19 in an animal and then expose it to the human with the antibodies to it and measure the response?

>>sam_go+(OP)
They describe it here: https://www.rootclaim.com/rootclaim_challenge

>Since there is no lab test or clear-cut way to determine whether a Rootclaim analysis is correct, we have to rely on outside expert judges.

I haven't been able to find any place where it says who the judges are for this challenge.