The origin of SARS-CoV-2
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The corresponding author is Chandra Wickramasinghe, who has form in this area, having claimed two decades ago that flu also came from space — an idea roundly criticized as bunk. He has also claimed that SARS — an earlier coronavirus — had the same origins. Ditto.
Well, at lease he's an equal-opportunity fabulist.
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He's a former student of famous astronomer and supporter of controversial theories, Fred Hoyle, who also said some illnesses were extra-terrestrial.