Where's he get his numbers?

 

Rand Paul, medical expert  (ha ha ha ha ha), has some numbers he'd like to share with the American public.

That would be the gullible American public that believes everything that is broadcast on the right-wing propaganda channel Fox "News".

We know they're out there.  Sadly, we know that a lot of them are out there.

Anyway, "medical expert" Senator Rand Paul told Fox "News" that "that there is a probability of '90 to 10' that the COVID-19 virus was engineered through gain-of-function research in a lab in Wuhan, China and subsequently leaked from that lab."  (Read it here, courtesy of Daily Mail.)

Seriously.  And despite trying to ridicule Anthony Fauci because he said that attacks on him are attacks on science, "medical expert" Paul has not cited a single reference that backs up his numbers.  That's what scientists would do, by the way. 

So I ask again -- where is he getting those numbers?  Basically, he's pulling them out of his excretory orifice.

IF YOU SEARCH, there is no evidence, no quantitative evidence, NOTHING, that indicates any statistical probability of the lab leak theory.   Even I, as someone who is curious about it and who thinks that there is a chance that the virus could have escaped from the lab, know for certain that there is no statistical evidence or estimate regarding the actual probability of the "lab leak" theory.

On the other hand (this is from this article: The Mysterious Case of the Covid-19 Lab Leak Theory

"More than one virologist reminded me that nature is the best bioterrorist. It’s far more creative than humans are. With enough time, evolution is capable of anything we can imagine, and everything we can’t. “If you look at a platypus, you can very clearly realize that that’s not something somebody would have designed, right?” Andersen said. “Because it’s too absurd. It’s a bit of a disaster. But it works pretty well.” It occupies its own ecological niche. Some of the notable features of sars-CoV-2, Andersen said, make it “the platypus of coronaviruses.”

So, Senator Paul, I don't believe you have any actual numbers, and therefore, I do not believe you.

(It's not the first time, jerkface.)