Cara Santa Maria

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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe · The Skeptics Guide #827 - May 15 2021 podcast

And interestingly, line ones make up about 17% of the entire human genome. voice-verified

So this has happened a lot before. voice-verified

We know this has happened a lot before. voice-verified

And we don't think that this was all, you know, from from retroviruses. voice-verified

We think that there are other ways that the that the viral DNA could make its way into or the RNA could make its way into the DNA. voice-verified

We think reverse transcription is a very common one. voice-verified

The issue is that the reverse transcription would need to utilize the enzymes that are in the host. voice-verified

So the reverse transcriptase would need to be provided by the host. voice-verified

It wouldn't be something that the actual virus is providing, like in a retrovirus. voice-verified

So the problem here that I'm seeing with when I read the actual study is that, number one, they're saying that even though, yes, we did recover human viral human chimeric reeds, voice-verified

when we looked at these cultured human cells. voice-verified

And yes, we did see that they were inserted somewhat randomly. voice-verified

They weren't inserted at specific sites. voice-verified

So we don't think that this was an error in the experimentation. voice-verified

We believe that this was an actual jump. voice-verified

What they didn't find is that they didn't find a line one endonuclease recognition site in upwards of 30% of the instances. voice-verified

that the SARS-CoV-2 made its way into the human DNA. voice-verified

So the very mechanism that they think could be responsible, they couldn't even find evidence of in like almost a third of the cases. voice-verified

They also say in their discussion, and I'll quote here, it will be important in follow-up studies to demonstrate the presence of SARS-CoV-2 sequences integrated into the host genome in patient tissues, right? voice-verified

As I said, they didn't do this in people, they did it in cell lines. voice-verified

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