Market, lab, gain of function, and what the evidence can and cannot say.
Figure A. One column per stream in date order, Sep 3, 2025 to Sep 27, 2026. Shade is keyword mentions on a log scale, scaled to this topic's busiest night. Streams under 3 mentions stay blank.
The earliest known cases clustered around the Huanan market, and virus-positive samples tracked with stalls selling live mammals. The authors say the upstream events remain unknown. The debate is live on the show.
Worobey M, et al. The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. Science. 2022;377:951-959. doi:10.1126/science.abp8715
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1:46:41audience that's watching right now, how many of you believe that lab leak is true. A lot of people, a lot of people think that lab leak is true. You know that there are, there's no scientific evidence, not a single piece of scientific evide...
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Figure B. Transcript passages that mention "lab leak" the most, one per video, from 208 matching passages. Each opens YouTube at that second.