'Using computational methods, developed over the last ten years at Oxford, we were able to reconstruct the origins and timescale of this new pandemic,' said Dr Oliver Pybus of Oxford University's Department of Zoology, an author of the paper. 'Our results show that this strain has been circulating among pigs, possibly among multiple continents, for many years prior to its transmission to humans.'
Dr Pybus, along with Andrew Rambaut from the University of Edinburgh and colleagues, used evolutionary analysis to estimate the timescale of the origins and the early development of the epidemic. They believe that it was derived from several viruses circulating in swine, and that the initial transmission to humans occurred several months before recognition of the outbreak.
www.sciencedaily.com...
They have taken it as a given that the virus has evolved naturally, and then worked out how it could have evolved.
And now we'll have people using this study to prove the virus evolved naturally. The same thing was done with aids in Africa; the same type of evolutionary computer simulation, presuming it was a naturally evolved disease, was done to find out how it most likely evolved, and was then used to prove it evolved naturally.
NIST learned from the same book.
They based their assessments on the "fact" that the towers had fallen down naturally after being hit by Boeings piloted by Islamic martyrs, and simply looked for evidence to support that view.
Now people refer to that report to prove the very notion it took for granted and never once questioned.
GIGO (Garbage in --> garbage out.)
Don't forget the only animals this virus has been found in are the Canadian ones who caught it from their farmer after he came back from Mexico and then got overly friendly with them.
[edit on 14/6/09 by Kailassa]
