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I don’t think many are arguing that the market was not a viral cesspool. It’s clear the market was a pathway. I think the objection is to the claim that market transmission disproves lab leak.
I can see how the statistical genetics argument can give you a timeline for when the virus got to the market. I don’t see how a statistical genetics argument tells you where it came from. Inside a bat, or inside a bat researcher who is there to buy dinner?
Yes, that's the point I was trying to make in saying the lab leak is fundamentally a historical/political question in the sense that science can never disprove it didn't happen that way. Thus, the set of paper that were first referenced in the post linking to the Science highlight are attempting to track back to the common ancestor of the Cov2 lineages that are out there. That data does not address where that common ancestor came from other than to say that most likely rooting event to explain CoV2 genetic lineages was two near contemporaneous jumps in Wuhan.