Man after all the FOIA documents, tell-all books, secret cables, alleged whisleblowers and smoking guns people have claimed around #originsofcovid in the past few years, it surely is surprising that nobody seems to be able to write a plausible scientific paper about it. 🤔

— Philipp Markolin (@PhilippMarkolin) December 6, 2022

If your claims include some version of #engineering, tell us how the mosaic genome came about?

How did the scientists 'fake' the evolutionary history of the virus & make every feature of it look perfectly natural as well as uncharacteristic/incompatible w/ any design approaches?

— Philipp Markolin (@PhilippMarkolin) December 6, 2022

How do you explain that the virus did not die out once it "leaked" from the lab, as most single #introduction events did with SC2?

Where is the #interface that the virus had repeated #opportunity to infect many, many hosts in order to start a pandemic?

— Philipp Markolin (@PhilippMarkolin) December 6, 2022

a week apart from each other, but are both centered around the Huanan market?

I am just saying: If you are serious & not just selling a fictional story for cash, these questions need to be answered credibly, not waved away

"I do not know the details" is not sufficient as answer

— Philipp Markolin (@PhilippMarkolin) December 6, 2022

So if you, dear consumer of alternative theories, are confronted next time with yet another book, leaked document, op-ed or whatever promising you the 'real' story what happened, just ask yourself:

Are these stories even capable of explaining what is already known?

— Philipp Markolin (@PhilippMarkolin) December 6, 2022

What can be asserted without evidence can be discarded without evidence.

What ignores or is not consistent with available evidence is not going to offer any insights worth having.

Stop wasting your time and attention on stuff that is not worth it.

/end

— Philipp Markolin (@PhilippMarkolin) December 6, 2022