<story><title>Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan was early epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic</title><url>https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8715</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ejb999</author><text>I wonder how many people who are seemingly willing to believe the self-serving CCP party-line on this, would be just as believing of the owners of a nuclear power plant in their town, once the drinking water became radioactive, claiming &amp;quot;it didn&amp;#x27;t come from the plant, someone else down the street must have done it&amp;quot; - that is just about as believable as this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jeema101</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;s a coincidence that the pandemic started in Wuhan, but probably not in the way you&amp;#x27;re thinking: Wuhan is the largest railway hub in all of China [1].  And that&amp;#x27;s likely the reason why both the institute and the market were situated there in the first place.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Wuhan_Railway_Hub&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Wuhan_Railway_Hub&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan was early epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic</title><url>https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8715</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ejb999</author><text>I wonder how many people who are seemingly willing to believe the self-serving CCP party-line on this, would be just as believing of the owners of a nuclear power plant in their town, once the drinking water became radioactive, claiming &amp;quot;it didn&amp;#x27;t come from the plant, someone else down the street must have done it&amp;quot; - that is just about as believable as this.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>anigbrowl</author><text>Pure emotional argument without substance.&lt;p&gt;You made no effort at all to criticize the methodology (which looks pretty standard to me, consistent with methods used to pinpoint the origin of other disease outbreaks besides COVID), or the raw data. Not one of the listed authors is Chinese, nor do any of them have any Chinese institutional affiliations.&lt;p&gt;What is your actual argument for why I should disregard this, beyond &amp;#x27;CCP bad&amp;#x27;?</text></comment>