Still no evidence the coronavirus was made in a lab

摘要

A RESEARCH paper claiming to prove that the coronavirus was cooked up in a lab has been widely dismissed by scientists. The paper, which was posted online last week and hasn't been peer reviewed, says that "unusual features" of the virus's genome suggest "sophisticated laboratory modification rather than natural evolution". The authors allege that the modification of one or more bat viruses was carried out in a laboratory in Wuhan, China. Experts poured scorn on the claim. The paper "does not provide any robust evidence of artificial manipulation and is highly speculative", said Gkikas Magiorkinis at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, in a statement.