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In addition to that, one of their other priors supporting lab escape appears to be plainly wrong:

>Furin cleavage sites are not common in other related coronaviruses.

However, this claim appears to have been investigated and debunked [1]

>Furin cleavage sites occurred independently for multiple times in the evolution of the coronavirus family, supporting the natural occurring hypothesis of SARS-CoV-2.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187350612...

>>glenst+(OP)
This is key since the entire analysis hinges really on 2 or 3 key assumptions and furin cleavage is one of them.

>>JoshTk+w3
“With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.” - John von Neumann