EPISODE · Nov 9, 2022
Covid lab leak speculation & revolutionary click chemistry
from Lost in Science
This week, Chris examines some recent reporting on the hypothesis that COVID-19 originated as a leak from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, and finds that it’s based less on science than it is on reading between the lines in questionable translations of online documents; and Stu explains the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022, which was awarded for the development of “click” and bioorthogonal chemistry.
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This week, Chris examines some recent reporting on the hypothesis that COVID-19 originated as a leak from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, and finds that it’s based less on science than it is on reading between the lines in questionable translations of online documents; and Stu explains the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022, which was awarded for the development of “click” and bioorthogonal chemistry.
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