PolitiFact article claiming COVID-19 pandemic was not caused by people eating bats

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Re: PolitiFact article claiming COVID-19 pandemic was not caused by people eating bats

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brimstoneSalad wrote: That means effectively no harmful genetic degradation from generation to generation.
So, do you mean to say viruses never devolve? Does not that imply that seasonal flu will always get less lethal (and therefore more favorable to viruses) over time?
brimstoneSalad wrote:Stop trying to use reason to arrive at empirical conclusions.
But I can try to use experiments together with reason to arrive at empirical conclusions, like I have done in this draft of the paper about linguistics I am planning to publish, right?
https://flatassembler.github.io/Fonoloska_evolucija_jezika.docx wrote:I came to the conclusion that, in the Croatian language, phonology takes away 1.62 bits per symbol of entropy of consonant pairs, that syntax takes away 0.21 bits per symbol, and that morphology takes away 1.57 bits per symbol. Only 5.99 bits per symbol of entropy of pairs of consonants is semantics.
Or do you think it is fundamentally the same thing?
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