They seem to say it wasn’t engineered:
“But they’re wrong; it’s still not engineered. An analysis of the paper clearly reveals that: - snip - The 2019-nCoV genome does not contain remarkable genomic properties which need explaining, and for which we’d look to some kind of bioengineering as a cause. “
“But they’re wrong; it’s still not engineered.”
Anyone who makes a statement like that is not trying to lay out the facts. They are trying to spread an opinion as fact.
Since no one (that will admit it) knows how this virus came to be, how would we ‘know’ it wasn’t engineered by a couple of very simple procedures that could appear as ‘natural mutation’ ?