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10 Feb 2020
Independent scientists have debunked the retracted paper cited by Alex Jones, stating its analyses were wrong and showed no signs of human tampering.

Also, that Indian scientist who wrote the non-peer-reviewed paper that he retracted after getting feedback from fellow scientists was not a top scientist. Alex is just making that up to make that retracted paper seem more credible, which it's not. No one else, except right-wing conspiracy blogs, are saying the same thing that scientists said. I guess Mike Adams is, but his website is an extremely right-wing conspiracy blog, so he doesn't get to count as other scientists. Factcheck.org actually did talk to other scientists about that paper. Christian Anderson, the director of infectious disease genomics at the Scripps Research Translational Institute, told them that the analyses in the paper were, quote, completely wrong. Anderson said there was a, quote, misunderstanding of how to perform these type of analyses and said that they were just cherry-picking data. Timothy Sheehan, the virologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, told them that if you look at the genome, there are zero signs of human tampering. He said that because, despite what Alex keeps saying on his show, it's not like no one has the genome of it. They did send it out. Yeah, but you can't trust him. He's only 250th ranked scientist in North Carolina. That doesn't even get you in the ATP tour, Dan. Another person who studied the virus, Trevor Bedford, a computational biologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, actually recreated what the retracted study was attempting to analyze. He found that the things that they were claiming to be inserts in the RNA are actually just mistakes in interpretation made by the Indian researchers. What was claimed to be things added into the RNA were clearly segments of material that are present in closely related SARS-like viruses. He tweeted out all of his materials, too, so if Alex is so desperate to get his hands on it, it's been there on Twitter for at least a week. Alex probably didn't see that, though, because he's been kicked off Twitter.