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Écorché's avatar

On the question of lineage B preceding A, it's not clear who believes that any more. Crits-Christoph 2024 phylogenies came out 90% in favor of A as ancestral to B. Figure 1B is much clearer than the text on this point. (The text is also a bit odd around the relative frequencies of lineage A and B in market samples, which they describe as "the presence of both lineages A and B at the market".)

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Maybe it's a cheap point to make, but the CIA, the FBI, and intelligence agencies writ large aren't largely comprised of rebels, self-styled or otherwise.

There are intel lab leakers, data-oriented lab leakers, academic ones, activist ones, crazy ones, bat-shit crazy ones, MAGA ones, and Jamie Metzl. Conversely, the other side is a small academic niche and the rationalist autists they've persuaded.

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