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		bawolff on Jan 3, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Evidence for a mouse origin of the SARS-CoV-2 Omic... Why would that alter my level of excitement? I know different journals are of differing levels of quality, and im not in the know enough to assess which is which, but i would never assume that the NIH is the only group that knows how to do science.

gorgoiler on Jan 3, 2022 [–]

For me, HN putting the paper’s title next to “TLA.gov” gave the former the weight of the latter, suggesting this was a US government finding.

But, with respect to the original authors, it’s more like “Mice did this!” alongside “www3.docs.nih.gov/~jeff45/theories/drafts/mice.htm?”

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