evidence: Several online stories inaccurately claim that the new coronavirus contains HIV "insertions" and shows signs of being created in a lab. But there is no evidence that the new virus was bioengineered, and every indication it came from an animal. [...] A ZeroHedge article with the headline, "Coronavirus Contains ‘HIV Insertions,’ Stoking Fears Over Artificially Created Bioweapon," pounced on some of the language in the preprint to argue that the scientists were saying the virus might be "man-made." The story also cited tweets from a visiting scientist at Harvard who had commented on the preprint and stated that the scientist’s tweets suggested that the virus "might have been genetically engineered for the purposes of a weapon." [...] Only one "insertion" is not fully shared with the bat virus, Bedford explained, and "in no way suggests engineering" since it is consistent with the types of insertions and deletions that happen in coronaviruses. "There is absolutely no evidence for either (1) sequence insertions or (2) their relationship to HIV," he concluded.