Instigator / Pro
7
1497
rating
2
debates
25.0%
won
Topic
#1809

CoVID-19 's origins are manmade. It is not of pure natural origins.

Status
Finished

The debate is finished. The distribution of the voting points and the winner are presented below.

Winner & statistics
Better arguments
0
15
Better sources
2
10
Better legibility
3
5
Better conduct
2
5

After 5 votes and with 28 points ahead, the winner is...

oromagi
Parameters
Publication date
Last updated date
Type
Standard
Number of rounds
2
Time for argument
Two days
Max argument characters
6,000
Voting period
One week
Point system
Multiple criterions
Voting system
Open
Contender / Con
35
1922
rating
117
debates
97.44%
won
Description

Here we shall see if, at this point in the argument, one can argue that CoVID=19 is of natural origins or synthetic.

Civility, and source, please. Let's have some fun.

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@RationalMadman
@Barney
@whiteflame
@Trent0405
@fauxlaw

Thanks for voting, fellows.

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@PolymathPete

Nice job on your R1. There's a lot of debaters who would have just forfeited against that argument; you just happened to go against a damned good one.

Anyways, thanks for giving me something to ponder over a beer with friends.

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@PolymathPete

R1 sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_disease_2019
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome_coronavirus_2
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/man-made#English
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nature#Noun
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/origin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_%28philosophy%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoonosis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic#Epidemiology
http://english.whiov.cas.cn/
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.30.927871v2
https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/03/retraction-faulty-coronavirus-paper-good-moment-for-science/
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/22221751.2020.1738279
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/james-lyons-weiler-coronavirus-conspiracy-vaccine/

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@PolymathPete

"My first instigated debate on here and I get someone with a 57 - 0 record. What have I done??!!"

Sorry, that's not very welcoming of me but I love debunking conspiracy theories and I've been wanting to look into this very topic. Very interesting and timely subject, thanks for instigating.

and welcome to the site!

I don't use Windows, either, anymore. I've always had a Mac, but, with my familiarity with Windows, I prefer using Word for Mac, which functions much better than it does for Micronuts. I am broke on the pane of windows. Are you on Mac and Pages? Although I am friends with oromagi, I, too, am suspicious of the record. But since I agree with your position, I chose to not engage. However, since, I have done exactly that, taking a debate position with which I disagree, just to see if I could pull it off.

Thank you for your comments. I don't use Word. Microsoft and I had a fight and have decided to go separate ways. :)

My first instigated debate on here and I get someone with a 57 - 0 record. What have I done??!!

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@PolymathPete

By the way, your argument is very well prepared. Great beginning. I had not heard about your reference to the apparent human signature in the virus RNA. Wow!
Hope you're not offended by my previous comment on sources. I see you are, like me, new on the site. I wondered, too, how to deal with sourcing, and discovered what I already knew in Word about reference notes, and found the sequence works. There may be a better way...

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@PolymathPete

The origin of your issue with posting sources is closer to home than the site. It functions perfectly well in accepting text with embedded source notes.
1. prepare your document in Word
2. As you compose, when needing to reference a source, click on <insert>, <footnote>
3. In the pop-up box, under <location>, select <endnotes> which will collect all source references at the end of the document. [The other selection, <footnotes> will collect them at the foot of each page.] The notes are automatically assigned numeric sequence, and enters the number both within the text, and at the end of the document. Enter your reference in each end note as you compile them.
4. Copy/paste your text, not including the endnotes into the argument entry box as usual, and make a note in the text that your sources are listed in the comments section.
5. Enter the comments section, copy/paste your endnotes into the comment box. Done.