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Is SARS From Mars?

Posted by timothy on from the make-of-it-what-you-will dept.

lupulack writes "A news item at CTV.ca asks whether coronaviruses such as that implicated in SARS are in fact completely terrestrial in origin. It's not as clear cut as you might think !"

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  1. Glaicers. by Unknown+Poltroon · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I heard an interesting discussion about viruses/plagues being trapped in glaicers. AS the glacier thaws, it is reintroduced to the world, which as since lost much of its resistance. Im not sure what evidence they have, but it is a neat idea.

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  2. Re:Tinfoil hat time by sould · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I agree completely with your reasoning.

    But

    Occam's razor is not "the explaination that requires the fewest ad-hoc assumptions is the most likely to be correct (as it has the fewest places to break)."

    Its actually "Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily."

    One of the philisophical conclusions you can take Occam's razor to is "when you have two competing theories which make exactly the same predictions, the one that is simpler is the better."

    But that aint actually the razor itself.