"This was covered extensively in a thread yesterday. The author of the article is not a virologist but rather a computer nerd with a specialty in bio-science. The reason the article was withdrawn is that real virologists were critical of it. The publisher is not a peer reviewed site, but rather a pre-publishing site used to check for duplicate plagiarism in papers before submission by comparison with already published papers.
"A Freepers son who is in the field wrote a criticism that pointed out it’s not unusual to get false duplicate strands like what is being reported."
#38:
"I was just commenting the same thing. He is working on a theory, he is not stating it is fact.
"He should keep his theory close to himself. They are talking about him across a lot of forum/sites now. This could ruin his career."