I mean, that’s so damn clean. He’s citing evidence as proof there is no evidence.
Not quite the same, but similar mood: since there is no evidence, we thought we’d check if we could reinterpret the evidence to not be evidence.
Although no evidence suggests that [norovirus] is transmitted via the airborne route [9], the importance of this route has been suggested by several published reports [10]. [...]
To explore in greater detail the possibility of fomite versus airborne transmission of noroviruses, we reassessed the evidence in support of airborne transmission in a norovirus outbreak at a hotel restaurant in the UK in 1998 [21] by testing whether the alternative fomite transmission route could have led to a similar pattern of secondary cases.
The reference for “no evidence” was a CDC page that stated that “[t]here is no evidence showing that people can get infected by breathing in the virus” without discussing any evidence (the archive date on this link is within a week from when the article says they accessed the page):
Xiao, Shenglan, Julian W. Tang, and Yuguo Li. “Airborne or fomite transmission for norovirus? A case study revisited.” International journal of environmental research and public health 14.12 (2017): 1571.
Not quite the same, but similar mood: since there is no evidence, we thought we’d check if we could reinterpret the evidence to not be evidence.
The reference for “no evidence” was a CDC page that stated that “[t]here is no evidence showing that people can get infected by breathing in the virus” without discussing any evidence (the archive date on this link is within a week from when the article says they accessed the page):
http://web.archive.org/web/20170902234244/https://www.cdc.gov/norovirus/hcp/clinical-overview.html
The original article:
Xiao, Shenglan, Julian W. Tang, and Yuguo Li. “Airborne or fomite transmission for norovirus? A case study revisited.” International journal of environmental research and public health 14.12 (2017): 1571.
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/14/12/1571/htm