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These sort of articles just accentuate my sense that we're living in a post fact world.

Is this legitimate research? Or cranky shit spat out by anti-vax zealots?

I guess I'll just have to wait for Scott Alexander to get around to reading this, and put in the hundred hours or so necessary to search through the papers and find out what the truth is.

We are living data points right now, I don't think we are post fact, I think we are pre fact ... in fact.

Totally agree though about the inability to interpret complex arcs of reality based on some selection of this or that study. The story that emerges should always be understood as skewed towards the narrators intent.

"Omicrons (B.1.1.529) most recent common ancestor is AV.1. Relative to this MRCA, Omicron has 25 nonsynonymous and 1 synonymous mutation in Spike, and 13 nonsynonymous and 6 synonymous mutations in the entire rest of the genome."

This seems improbable, but AFAICT you wouldn't expect it even in lab passaging.

Most probably some secret advanced biological counter weapon against the other thing.

Omicron Is Not Normal