evidence: And yet, headlines are currently screaming that scientists have "proved" that COVID-19 was bioengineered in a lab despite this being no more likely than in July 2020. What's going on? [...] In fact, the paper doesn't even claim to demonstrate that COVID-19 was created in a lab, it just posits the theory and then says that others should disprove this theory because it is so "parsimonious". [...] We can't exclude the possibility that COVID-19 was constructed in a lab, but on balance it is a much less likely explanation.