If SARS2 indeed escaped laboratory experiment , savage blowback could expected , storm public indignation would affect virologists everywhere , China. “ It would shatter scientific edifice top bottom , ” MIT Technology Review editor , Antonio Regalado , said March 2020.A second statement enormous influence shaping public attitudes letter ( words opinion piece , scientific article ) published 17 March 2020 journal Nature Medicine.Its authors group virologists led Kristian G. Andersen Scripps Research Institute. “ Our analyses clearly show SARS-CoV-2 laboratory construct purposefully manipulated virus , ” five virologists declared second paragraph letter.Unfortunately , another case poor science , sense defined above.True , older methods cutting pasting viral genomes retain tell-tale signs manipulation.But newer methods , called “ no-see-um ” “ seamless ” approaches , leave defining marks .