Researchers find four gene sequences from HIV inserted in the current coronavirus. Hmmm...

Does the figure below ring any bells?  If not, don't feel bad.  It's a gene-sequence of the new coronavirus.  But what do those four little squares mean?

Those are genes which have been inserted into the original virus. 

And by vast coincidence those inserted genes are identical to genes that create a unique surface found on the HIV virus, that enable that virus to bind more effectively to a type of white blood cell.

Virus experts say it's astronomically unlikely that this could have happened by accident.  That suggests the genes were deliberately inserted, to make the virus more successful in infecting humans.  Here's the link to the paper.

Of course you're way too busy to click on that link, so I'll show you the relevant parts below:

Introduction

Coronaviruses (CoV) are single-stranded positive-sense RNA viruses that infect animals and humans. These are classified into 4 genera based on their host specificity: Alphacoronavirus, Betacoronavirus, Deltacoronavirus and Gammacoronavirus (Snijder et al., 2006). There are seven known types of CoVs that includes 229E and NL63 (Genus Alphacoronavirus), OC43, HKU1, MERS and SARS (Genus Betacoronavirus). While 229E, NL63, OC43, and HKU1 commonly infect humans, the SARS and MERS outbreak in 2002 and 2012 respectively occurred when the virus crossed-over from animals to humans causing significant mortality (J. Chan et al., n.d.; J. F. W. Chan et al., 2015). In December 2019, another outbreak of coronavirus was reported from Wuhan, China that also transmitted from animals to humans.

This new virus has been temporarily termed as 2019-novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) by the World Health Organization (WHO) (J. F.- W. Chan et al., 2020; Zhu et al., 2020). While there are several hypotheses about the origin of 2019-nCoV, the source of this ongoing outbreak remains elusive.

The transmission patterns of 2019-nCoV is similar to patterns of transmission documented in the previous outbreaks including by bodily or aerosol contact with persons infected with the virus. Cases of mild to severe illness, and death from the infection have been reported from Wuhan. This outbreak has spread rapidly distant nations including France, Australia and USA among others. The number of cases within and outside China are increasing steeply. Our current understanding is limited to the virus genome sequences and modest epidemiological and clinical data. Comprehensive analysis of the available 2019- nCoV sequences may provide important clues that may help advance our current understanding to manage the ongoing outbreak. ****

Although the 4 inserts represent discontiguous short stretches of amino acids in spike glycoprotein of 2019-nCoV, the fact that all three of them share amino acid identity or similarity with HIV-1 gp120 and HIV-1 Gag suggests that this is not a random fortuitous finding.

One may sporadically expect a fortuitous match for a stretch of 6-12 contiguous amino acid residues in an unrelated protein. However, it is unlikely that all 4 inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike glycoprotein fortuitously match with 2 key structural proteins of an unrelated virus (HIV-1). The amino acid residues of inserts 1, 2 and 3 of 2019-nCoV spike glycoprotein that mapped to HIV-1 were a part of the V4, V5 and V1 domains respectively in gp120 [Table 1]. Since the 2019-nCoV inserts mapped to variable regions of HIV-1, they were not ubiquitous in HIV-1 gp120, but were limited to selected sequences of HIV-1 [ refer S.File1] primarily from Asia and Africa.

Now unless you're into genetic coding of virii you probably didn't bother to wade through the five 'grafs above.  I just showed them to show that the discovery seems to have come from credible research.

But then something else happened:  The above excerpt was from a "pre-print" version of the paper.  And as soon as it appeared, the team that authored the paper pulled back, saying

“It was not our intention to feed into the conspiracy theories…we appreciate the criticisms… and will get back with a revised version.”

See, the team's findings suggest that it's astronomically unlikely that the HIV-like genes found their way into the coronavirus naturally.  This suggests that they were almost certainly deliberately inserted by humans.  But hey, anyone who says that is raaaacist! against Chinese people!

Isn't that fabulous?  Scream "raaaaacism" and everyone dives for the exits.  Honest research results are trashed, buried, because the communist Chinese government doesn't like the findings.

Yep, that's how honest science is supposed to work, eh?

So, citizen, you're instructed to disregard the "uncanny similarity" paper.  Cuz...well, there's a very good reason.  And as soon as the Chinese government comes up with it, we'll tell you.