Why is it so hard to believe bats started covid?

Lindsay Beyerstein on Zeynep Tufekci's contrarian nonsense.

Zeynep Tufekci is attracting attention for her op-ed in the Times arguing that covid might have escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Tufekci is a sociologist who made her name as a covid pundit for her early, evidence-based advocacy of masks. She has carved out a reputation for well-informed and carefully reasoned opinions on pandemic-related m…